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<p>Meister Eckhart’s German sermons are characterized by an emphatic synchronization of source-quotations and self-quotations. Not only is the high frequency of self-quotations striking, but also their form. Self-referential chains of quotations create specific structures of resumption that repeatedly collapse distinctions of meaning (said/meant), temporal progression (then/now), modes of statement (indicative/subjunctive), and authorship (divine word/preacher’s word). With the claim of timeless truth evidence, Eckhart explicitly installs himself as the agent of this synchronization: »Out of two [=quotations] I make one.«</p><p>Mysticism research has evaluated Eckhart’s self-quotations in terms of (work-chronological, text-pragmatic, thematic) coherence functions. This article takes a&#xa0;different approach. It argues for a&#xa0;closer connection between Eckhart’s self-quotations, as concretely deictically marked as they may be (»here« in Cologne with the Cistercian nuns in Mariengarten), and his metaphysical abstraction of space-time‑I coordinates, and to additionally consider the interplay of self-quotation and source-quotation. Starting from a&#xa0;tension-filled hermeneutics of ›reduplicative‹ repetition, Eckhart’s self-quotations appear as iterative figures of transgression, whose emphasis even incorporates <i>ungesprochen wort</i> (›unspoken word‹): the ›pure potentiality‹ of thought quotations. When Eckhart’s self-quotations are not evaluated in isolation, they reveal their specific transgressive dynamics. As performative figures, they enact what they speak about (the self-expansion of ›truth‹), as recursive figures, they overlay concrete and situationally abstract deixis, both in the resonance space of one and the same truth. This double tension creates an ambiguity that was incriminated by the Cologne censors.</p>

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  • Susanne Köbele

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Meister Eckhart’s German sermons are characterized by an emphatic synchronization of source-quotations and self-quotations. Not only is the high frequency of self-quotations striking, but also their form. Self-referential chains of quotations create specific structures of resumption that repeatedly collapse distinctions of meaning (said/meant), temporal progression (then/now), modes of statement (indicative/subjunctive), and authorship (divine word/preacher’s word). With the claim of timeless truth evidence, Eckhart explicitly installs himself as the agent of this synchronization: »Out of two [=quotations] I make one.«

Mysticism research has evaluated Eckhart’s self-quotations in terms of (work-chronological, text-pragmatic, thematic) coherence functions. This article takes a different approach. It argues for a closer connection between Eckhart’s self-quotations, as concretely deictically marked as they may be (»here« in Cologne with the Cistercian nuns in Mariengarten), and his metaphysical abstraction of space-time‑I coordinates, and to additionally consider the interplay of self-quotation and source-quotation. Starting from a tension-filled hermeneutics of ›reduplicative‹ repetition, Eckhart’s self-quotations appear as iterative figures of transgression, whose emphasis even incorporates ungesprochen wort (›unspoken word‹): the ›pure potentiality‹ of thought quotations. When Eckhart’s self-quotations are not evaluated in isolation, they reveal their specific transgressive dynamics. As performative figures, they enact what they speak about (the self-expansion of ›truth‹), as recursive figures, they overlay concrete and situationally abstract deixis, both in the resonance space of one and the same truth. This double tension creates an ambiguity that was incriminated by the Cologne censors.