Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson
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Overview
Jordan Peterson rocketed to fame in the 2010s and has preached on everything from the evils of postmodern neo-Marxism to the mating habits of lobsters ever since then. The Left has since leveled many criticisms about the Canadian psychologist, characterizing him as everything from are apologist for the alt-right to simply not being interesting or profound. Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson is intended as a comprehensive critical look at all aspects of his thought, from the philosophical depths to the mundane heights. Written by four authors who each look at a different element of his thought, it shows Why taking Peterson seriously doesn't mean embracing him.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781789045536 |
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Publisher: | Hunt, John Publishing |
Publication date: | 04/24/2020 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.67(h) x 0.57(d) |
About the Author
Ben Burgis has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Miami. He is a science fiction writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Tor.com and in Prime Books. Burgis now teaches at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing in 2020. He lives in Paris, France.
McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. He lives in Monterrey, Mexico.
Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is co-author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, to be released by Zero Books in 2020. She lives in Monterrey, Mexico.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xii
Jordan Peterson as a Symptom…of What?: By Slavoj Zizek 1
Introduction 19
Part I Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Post-Modernism: By Matthew McManus 23
Chapter 1 Intellectual Roots 25
Peterson and the Inner Life
Man's Search for Meaning 31
The Emptiness of Post-Modernity 36
Chapter 2 The Generation of Meaning 47
The Structure of Maps of Meaning
The Idealist Dialectic Between Order and Chaos Part One: Theoretical Overview 53
The Idealist Dialectical Between Order and Chaos Part Two: The Divine Father and the Great Mother 58
The Return to Good and Evil 62
Concluding Thoughts and the Turn to Justice 67
Chapter 3 Jordan Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Conservatism 70
The Individual and Society
On Lobsters and Labour: The Social Necessity of Hierarchy 76
Cleaning One's Room Before Putting the World in Order 83
Concluding Thoughts on Petersonian Politics 91
Chapter 4 The Critique of the Left 94
Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part I
Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part II 96
Chapter 5 Conclusion 102
The Reactionary Impulse and Post-Modernity
What Can the Left Take Away from Jordan Peterson? 104
Part II Peterson's Reckoning with the Left: By Conrad Hamilton 107
Introduction 109
Chapter 6 Peterson's Showbiz Roots, OR from the Lecture Hall to Hollywood 111
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Peterson
Myth, Mayhem and Biology 113
Peterson's Primordial Patriarchy 117
Maps of Public Funding 119
The Birth of Controversy 123
Conclusion: Political Correctness, Prejudiced Directness 132
Chapter 7 Exoteric and Esoteric, OR the Terrible Intensity of Peterson 134
Janus-Faced Fascisms
Peterson's Illiberal Liberalism 136
The Psychoanalytic Structure of Disavowal 142
The All-Devouring Archetype 145
Conclusion: Peterson's Forsworn Shadow 150
Chapter 8 The Spectre of Post-Modern Neo-Marxism 152
Marx's Steady Haunting
The Rhetorical Figure of Communism 153
When in Need, Invent a Neologism 155
Peterson's (Non-) Reacting of Derrida 157
Différance and DNA 164
Derrida Contra the Althusserian Apparatus 168
Ghastly Evaluations 172
Peterson, Derrida and Big 'B' Being 174
Chapter 9 The Rebate of the Century, OR How Zizek Could've DESTROYED Peterson 178
The Great Debate: Origin and Structure
Proposition 1 History is to be viewed primarily as an economic class struggle 181
Proposition 2 Marx believes that all hierarchical structures exist because of capitalism 183
Proposition 3 Marx doesn't acknowledge the existence of nature 184
Proposition 4 Marx believes history can be conceived as a binary class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie 185
Proposition 5 Marx assumes that all good is on the side of the proletariat and all the evil is on the side of the bourgeoisie 185
Proposition 6 That the dictatorship of the proletariat must be brought about as the first stage of communist revolution 186
Proposition 7 Nothing that capitalists do constitutes valid labour 187
Proposition 8 Profit is theft 189
Proposition 9 The dictatorship of the proletariat will become magically productive 191
Proposition 10 Marx and Engels admit that capitalism is the most productive system of production ever, yet still wish to overthrow it 193
Conclusion: Buying and Selling Ideology 194
Part III Peterson on Feminism and Reason: By Marion Trejo and Ben Burgis 195
On Peterson's Anti-Feminism: By Marion Trejo 197
The Use of Radical Feminism as a Synecdoche for Feminism
The Mischaracterization of Patriarchy as Tyranny 200
The Misrepresentation of Gender Equality and the Use of Natural Order to Justify Gender Differences 204
The Recourse to a Male Victimization Narrative to Displace Women's Issues 207
On Lobsters, Logic and the Pitfalls of Good Rhetoric: By Ben Burgis 209
Endnotes 225