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Chopin’s Index Card & Derrida’s Postcard

Marla Morris

An opera singer texted me: ‘Look at this scrap of paper.’ Javier C. Hernández, music reporter for the New York Times, unearths something nearly unfathomable. ‘It was much smaller than I had imagined – a pockmarked scrap about the size of an index card.’ A cellphone. An image. A photograph taken of this scrap of […]

Full Citation Information:
Morris, M. (2024). Chopin’s Index Card & Derrida’s Postcard. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/chopins-index-card-derridas-postcard/

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. She has PhDs from Louisiana State University (Education) and the European Graduate School (Philosophy). 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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Aphorisms, Waste-Books and the Philosophy of Short Forms

Lichtenberg and Wittgenstein

Michael A. Peters

A page from Newton’s Waste-books 2. It’s a question whether in the arts and science a best is possible beyond which our understanding cannot go. Perhaps this point is infinitely distant, notwithstanding that with every closer approximation we have less in front of us. 7. If we want to draw up a philosophy that will […]

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Peters, M. A. (2022). Aphorisms, Waste-Books and the Philosophy of Short Forms: Lichtenberg and Wittgenstein. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/aphorisms-waste-books-and-the-philosophy-of-short-forms/

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 was awarded a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland in 2000 and became a Research Professor at the University of Glasgow (2000-2006) before being appointed Excellence Hire Professor at Illinois and Professor of Education at the University of Waikato. He has Honorary Doctorates from Aalborg University, Denmark and SUNY, New York.

Michael was Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory for 25 years and is currently Editor of Beijing International Review of Education (Brill). He is the 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 120 books and many journal articles on a wide range of topics and has worked with and mentored many younger scholars. He was given the Social Science and Humanities Leader in China Award in both 2022 and 2023 (Research.com) and is ranked 1st in China and 5th in Asia for Education and Educational Philosophy and Theory (AD Scientific Index, 2023). He is also ranked in the World’s Top 2% of Scientists by Stanford University. His recent works includes two books on the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic philosophy to be published in 2024.