[peeragogy-handbook] Preface to the Third Edition

[Joe Corneli]

Contact Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory writes:

> Page 3 - Peeragogy Definition + Table of Contents

If we can write a nice short one!

And even if we need to take a couple of pages to do it, it could be
worth a try.

Bear with me for a second!

I’m currently reading Spinoza’s "Ethics".  Deleuze’s introduction,
"Spinoza: Practical Philosophy", says (p. 111):

 « [Spinoza] arrives at God as quickly as possible, himself inventing
 this short path that still requires nine propositions. ... In reality,
 reaching God as quickly as possible, and not immediately, is fully a
 part of Spinoza’s definitive method[.] »

(*11* propositions, maybe?)  Anyway, just saying, if we’re going to
define peeragogy we should care to build up to it carefully.  Also, this
reference isn’t a complete distraction: here’s what Deleuze seems to be
building up to in *his* book (p. 126):

 « How do individuals enter into composition with one another in order
 to form a higher individual, ad infinitum?  How can a being take
 another being into its world, but while preserving or respecting the
 other’s own relations and world? »

I think potentially that chapter — "Spinoza and Us" — could be included
in a reading list for some version of a peeragogy course!  And maybe a
little of the above could go into a Tufte "sidenote" *somewhere* in the
book.  (Probably not in the frontmatter!  But wouldn’t it be quite nice
if our definition of Peeragogy answered Deleuze’s question!)

-- 
Dr Joseph A. Corneli (https://github.com/holtzermann17)

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