Stephen Dozeman
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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Essays on a Hugely Tremendous Times, published by Zero Books in 2020, as well as being the author of The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Postmodern Culture and Reactionary Politics.
Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tech de Monterey, Mexico.
She completed her bachelor's in international relations at Tech de Monterey and her master's in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
I was joined for this conversation by Matt McManus and Marion Trejo.
Matt McManus and Mary Antrejo, welcome to the New Books Network.
Yeah, so to start things off, I imagine most listeners on this podcast will have heard of Jordan Peterson at this point, but just to make sure everyone's on the same page, and for that one listener who maybe hasn't, can you give us a quick introduction to who Jordan Peterson is?
And more specifically for our conversation, why is a book length critique
Specifically a left wing one worth doing.
Um so Slavoj Zizek famously debated Peterson in early twenty nineteen and repeated a few of his comments there in an introduction for this book that we're talking about.
Uh he argues that Peterson's success depends on us occupying a very particular sort of social and cultural moment.
But that Peterson himself ignores or diverts a lot of the actual antagonisms we're wrestling with into secondary or pseudo debates.
You explain what Zizek's position here is that he's getting at?
So you start your own essay and Conrad Hamilton does this quite a lot as well, um, looking at maps of meaning in quite a lot of detail.
This book was both a look at some more kind of timeless questions about the human condition, but also was a way of trying to address certain political concerns Peterson had at the time he wrote it.
So can you give us something of an overview of the text and the
the context it was intended to address.
Maps of meaning is in a large part an attempt to synthesize a variety of fields like phenomenology, existentialism, union psychology, theology, and evolution, uh to come up with an account of how a conscious self emerges, how it functions or navigates its surroundings and processes information.
This gives Peterson a rather unique account of the self, albeit, as you point out, with some gaps.
So can you speak to Peterson's outline for a theory of subjectivity, as we might put it, as well as the way in which you feel the book kind of falls short in its synthetic attempts?
Uh Peterson is well known for his critique of a number of social and political movements, although it can be hard to parse his critical stance together.
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