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Dreams of Dionysus

Wine, Philosophy and Eros

Michael A. Peters

Triumph of Bacchus (Nicolaes Moeyaert, 1624) For sensible men, I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home. The fourth krater is not mine anymore – it belongs to bad behaviour; […]

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Peters, M. A. (2022). Dreams of Dionysus: Wine, Philosophy and Eros. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/dreams-of-dionysus/

Michael A. Peters

Michael A. Peters (FRSNZ)  is a New Zealander and is currently Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, and Emeritus Professor University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has Honorary Doctorates from Aalborg University, Denmark and SUNY, New York. Michael is Editor-in Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Beijing International Review of Education (Brill). He is founding editor of Policy Futures in Education (Sage); E-Learning & Digital Media (Sage); Knowledge Cultures (Addleton); Open Review of Educational Research (Taylor & Francis); Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Brill) and on the board of many other journals and book series. Michael has written over 100 books and many journal articles on a wide range of topics and has worked with and mentored many younger scholars.

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Nomadland: Cinema and Foucault’s Courage of Truth

Marla Morris

Michel Foucault’s The Courage of Truth – his series of lectures given at the College of France between 1983 and 1984 – concerns Plato’s use of the notion of parrhesia, or the necessity of truth-telling. Truth-telling is not only a philosophic idea but also a way of life, a “mode of life” (p. 146). Courage in […]

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Morris, M. (2021). Nomadland: Cinema and Foucault’s Courage of Truth. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/nomadland-cinema-and-foucaults-courage-of-truth/

Marla Morris

Marla is Professor of Curriculum, Foundations & Reading, in the College of Education, Statesboro Campus, Georgia Southern University, GA, USA. She studied philosophy at Tulane University, religious studies at Loyola University, New Orleans and Education at Louisiana State University. Her main interests are postmodern philosophy, psychoanalysis, curriculum studies and systematic theology. She has published papers on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Michel Serres, Simone de Beauvoir,  drawing extensively on the work of Gaston Bachelard and Donna Haraway. Marla has also worked in Holocaust studies, trauma studies, medical humanities and chaplaincy.

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Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and Painter Chris Sedgwick: The importance of art during COVID-19

Marla Morris

Chris Sedgwick, The Past Meeting The Future, 2014. 10.25″ x 14.5″. Oil, gold leaf on birch Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian filmmaker, shot seven films. His best-known films are perhaps Solaris and The Stalker. His lesser-known films such as Nostalgia – filmed in Italy – Andrei Rublev and others such as The Sacrifice – filmed in Sweden – are less well known. After […]

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Morris, M. (2020). Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and Painter Chris Sedgwick: The importance of art during COVID-19. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/filmmaker-andrei-tarkovsky-and-painter-chris-sedgwick/

Marla Morris

Marla is Professor of Curriculum, Foundations & Reading, in the College of Education, Statesboro Campus, Georgia Southern University, GA, USA. She studied philosophy at Tulane University, religious studies at Loyola University, New Orleans and Education at Louisiana State University. Her main interests are postmodern philosophy, psychoanalysis, curriculum studies and systematic theology. She has published papers on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Michel Serres, Simone de Beauvoir,  drawing extensively on the work of Gaston Bachelard and Donna Haraway. Marla has also worked in Holocaust studies, trauma studies, medical humanities and chaplaincy.

Article Feature Image Acknowledgement: Chris Sedgwick, The Past Meeting The Future, 2014. 10.25x14.5. _Oil,GoldLeafonBirch_2014_
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Nietzsche (as) educator

Babette Babich

There has been no shortage of readers who take Nietzsche as educator (cf., for a by no means exhaustive  list: Allen, 2017;  Aviram, 1991;  Bell,  2007; Cooper, 1983;  Fairfield,  2017;  Fitzsimons, 2007;  Gordon, 1980;  Havenstein, 1921;  Johnston, 2005;  Lemco, 1992; Löw, 1984;  Murphy, 1984; Peters, Marshall, & Smeyers, 2001; Rattner, 1994; Rosenow, 2000; Solms-Laubach, 2012, 139f, […]

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Babich, Babette (2019) Nietzsche (as) educator, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51:9, 871-885, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1544455
Article Feature Image Acknowledgement: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nietzsche1882.jpg