抄録
In his first major publication, The Essence of Manifestation (1963), Henry evaluates Eckhart as an “exceptional thinker”. For Henry, Eckhart has remained as a leading figure in his last works, The Incarnation (2000) and The Words of Christ (2002). This paper will consider Henry's comprehension of Eckhart with a close focus on The Essence of Manifestation. To this purpose, first, I will exam the reasons why Eckhart has such an evaluation as an “exceptional thinker” in The Essence of Manifestation. Through this consideration, the uniqueness of Eckhart's thought will become more distinctive. Then, we will discuss Henry's exceptional comprehension of Eckhart's exceptional thought. According to Henry, Eckhartian unity, is the fundamental unity of the essence, the capacity to reach oneself, to accept oneself, and thus to be united with oneself. Such unity is the essence of Deity as taught by Eckhart. What Eckhart understands as solitude or desert is the ontological capacity of Deity to be its own content and thus to be an absolute ontological existentiality in the midst of its solitude, in the desert of ground. This unity, which is the essence of Deity, gives itself the reality of its own content in unity, which is “purity” and “virginity”, and at the same time is the act of the “birth” of Deity. As Henry read it in Eckhart, it is also a gift. This gift brings about an experience of being in which one enjoys “one's own fertility” as “fullness” and “sweetness”. This experience of being is “joy”, and it would be the main issue for Henry's subsequent speculations and highlight what makes Henry's understanding of Eckhart so unique.
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