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 In Being and Time, Heidegger stressed the need for a certain “foreconception” (Vorgriff) of a subject matter which sketches out (10) beforehand the general dimensions of the matter to be understood (SZ, §32, 150/191). This foreconception does Not prejudice the results of further investigation but rather establishes the horizon within which the Material can be understood. It is precisely with such a foreconception that we wish to supply the reader of the present study. For the relationship of Heidegger to the mystics is not something with which we are all already familiar, and Meister Eckhart himself, while an important figure in the history of Western philosophy, does not enjoy the ready familiarity of an Aristotle or a Descartes. Thus we lack the terms in which to conceptualize this relationship; we lack the “horizon” which allows it to come into view. And so long as that is so, it will be impossible to formulate with any precision the “Problem” of the mystical element in Heidegger’s thought, i.e., the precise difficulties that are involved in the kinship of thinking, mysticism, and philosophy. Thus our study will rely upon the dynamics of the “hermeneutic circle”: we shall first establish in a preliminary way the kinship between Heidegger and Eckhart; then, we will step back from this relationship in order to formulate our question about it. Then in Chapter Four we will return to this relationship in order to study it in detail and so, on that basis, to assess its import. In Being and Time, Heidegger stressed the need for a certain “foreconception” (Vorgriff) of a subject matter which sketches out (10) beforehand the general dimensions of the matter to be understood (SZ, §32, 150/191). This foreconception does Not prejudice the results of further investigation but rather establishes the horizon within which the Material can be understood. It is precisely with such a foreconception that we wish to supply the reader of the present study. For the relationship of Heidegger to the mystics is not something with which we are all already familiar, and Meister Eckhart himself, while an important figure in the history of Western philosophy, does not enjoy the ready familiarity of an Aristotle or a Descartes. Thus we lack the terms in which to conceptualize this relationship; we lack the “horizon” which allows it to come into view. And so long as that is so, it will be impossible to formulate with any precision the “Problem” of the mystical element in Heidegger’s thought, i.e., the precise difficulties that are involved in the kinship of thinking, mysticism, and philosophy. Thus our study will rely upon the dynamics of the “hermeneutic circle”: we shall first establish in a preliminary way the kinship between Heidegger and Eckhart; then, we will step back from this relationship in order to formulate our question about it. Then in Chapter Four we will return to this relationship in order to study it in detail and so, on that basis, to assess its import.
  
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