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    Derridean Justice and the DJ: A Classroom Impossibility?
    Philosophy of Music Education Review 20 (2): 135-153. 2012.
    In recent years, researchers and theorists of music education have taken a stronger interest in questions of justice. Meanwhile, in educational research more broadly, there has been a simultaneous growth in efforts to bring deconstruction and the theories of Jacques Derrida to bear upon philosophies of education. One significant difficulty with the latter effort, however, has been Derrida’s insistence that justice, about which he wrote a great deal in his later years, is impossible. This article…Read more
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    A Reflection on Musical Experience as Existential Experience: An Ontological Turn
    with Estelle R. Jorgensen, Frederik Pio, Øivind Varkøy, J. Paul Louth, and Deborah L. Pierce
    Philosophy of Music Education Review 20 (2): 99. 2012.
    In the current world of education, politics and public opinion, musical experience is increasingly threatened. It is designated ever more as an expendable luxury. This kind of general trend has hardly left the thinking in the field of music and music education untouched. Inspiration comes from the technical rationality of our time. This rationality affects an oblivion of ontology. In this article we discuss this trend related to Martin Heidegger’s thinking concerning the human existence in the w…Read more