Stephen Dozeman

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New Books in Philosophy · Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson" (Zero Books, 2020) · 9 Apr 2020 podcast

Um or parse these elements apart because he lumps in a number of disparate movements.

Uh but let's try anyways.

So the core of much of his critique is against Marxism or something vaguely resembling Marxism.

So can you artic or explain how he articulates his anti Marxist stance a bit?

Yeah, so you and Conrad Hamilton again also go into a lot of detail with his engagement with uh postmodernism, which as you pointed out, um, Peterson kind of lumps it in together with Marxism.

So can you uh maybe unpack not just like how he lumps them together, but why that might be problematic?

Another movement Peterson has been critical of is feminism, which he also links back at various times to postmodern neo-Marxism.

And Marion, you kind of took this up mostly in your own contributions.

So can you unpack the core of Peterson's critique of feminism and some of the problematic assumptions he has built into that critique?

In a couple essays, both Matt McManus' and Conrad Hamilton's, a rather admirable effort is put forward to unpack Peterson's politics and the way they emerge out of his more theoretical work.

Peterson himself claims to be a classical liberal and running in parallel to that is a sort of implicit endorsement of a sort of individualistic

capitalist subject.

So can you unpack this aspect of his worldview?

Beneath the more classical liberal version of Peterson you've been speaking to, you and Hamilton detect hints of a more reactionary strain of thought that undergirds his work, although it only appears in fragments and from some of his influences, many of whom have problematic baggage that he refuses to check or kind of filter through.

So can you unpack this element of his politics?

One of the most famous aspects of Peterson's output has been some passages from early and twelve rules for life about lobsters.

And if I'm not mistaken, each essay in this book, including Zhizek's introduction, uh takes some of these passages up uh to critically examine them.

So what is Peterson saying in these passages?

And what do your you and your co authors take issue with regarding the kind of lobster metaphor?

The final essay in the book by Ben Burgess, as you just said, looks at Peterson via what he calls the Hitchens effect.

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