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| Jordan Peterson as a Symptom... of What? |
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| Introduction |
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19 | (4) |
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Part I Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Post-Modernism |
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Chapter One Intellectual Roots |
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25 | (22) |
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Peterson and the Inner Life Man's Search for Meaning |
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31 | (5) |
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The Emptiness of Post-Modernity |
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36 | (11) |
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Chapter Two The Generation of Meaning |
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47 | (23) |
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The Structure of Maps of Meaning The Idealist Dialectic Between Order and Chaos Part One: Theoretical Overview |
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53 | (5) |
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The Idealist Dialectical Between Order and Chaos Part Two: The Divine Father and the Great Mother |
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58 | (4) |
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The Return to Good and Evil |
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62 | (5) |
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Concluding Thoughts and the Turn to Justice |
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67 | (3) |
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Chapter Three Jordan Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Conservatism |
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70 | (24) |
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The Individual and Society On Lobsters and Labour: The Social Necessity of Hierarchy |
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76 | (7) |
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Cleaning One's Room Before Putting the World in Order |
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83 | (8) |
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Concluding Thoughts on Petersonian Politics |
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91 | (3) |
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Chapter Four The Critique of the Left |
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94 | (8) |
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Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part I Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part II |
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96 | (6) |
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102 | (5) |
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The Reactionary Impulse and Post-Modernity What Can the Left Take Away from Jordan Peterson? |
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104 | (3) |
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Part II Peterson's Reckoning with the Left: By Conrad Hamilton |
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107 | (88) |
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109 | (2) |
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Chapter Six Peterson's Showbiz Roots, OR from the Lecture Hall to Hollywood |
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111 | (23) |
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Peterson Myth, Mayhem and Biology |
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113 | (4) |
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Peterson's Primordial Patriarchy |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (4) |
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123 | (9) |
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Conclusion: Political Correctness, Prejudiced Directness |
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132 | (2) |
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Chapter Seven Exoteric and Esoteric, OR the Terrible Intensity of Peterson |
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134 | (18) |
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Janus-Faced Fascisms Peterson's Illiberal Liberalism |
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136 | (6) |
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The Psychoanalytic Structure of Disavowal |
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142 | (3) |
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The All-Devouring Archetype |
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145 | (5) |
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Conclusion: Peterson's Forsworn Shadow |
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150 | (2) |
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Chapter Eight The Spectre of Post-Modern Neo-Marxism |
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152 | (26) |
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Marx's Steady Haunting The Rhetorical Figure of Communism |
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153 | (2) |
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When in Need, Invent a Neologism |
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155 | (2) |
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Peterson's (Non-) Reading of Derrida |
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157 | (7) |
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164 | (4) |
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Derrida Contra the Althusserian Apparatus |
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168 | (4) |
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172 | (2) |
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Peterson, Derrida and Big `B' Being |
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174 | (4) |
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Chapter Nine The Rebate of the Century, OR How Zizek Could've DESTROYED Peterson The Great Debate: Origin and Structure |
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178 | (17) |
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Proposition 1 History is to be viewed primarily as an economic class struggle |
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Proposition 2 Marx believes that all hierarchical structures exist because of capitalism |
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Proposition 3 Marx doesn't acknowledge the existence of nature |
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184 | (1) |
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Proposition 4 Marx believes history can be conceived as a binary class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie |
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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 |
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Proposition 6 That the dictatorship of the proletariat must be brought about as the first stage of communist revolution |
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Proposition 7 Nothing that capitalists do constitutes valid labour |
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187 | (2) |
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Proposition 8 Profit is theft |
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189 | (2) |
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Proposition 9 The dictatorship of the proletariat will become magically productive |
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191 | (2) |
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Proposition 10 Marx and Engels admit that capitalism is the most productive system of production ever, yet still wish to overthrow it |
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193 | (1) |
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Conclusion: Buying and Selling Ideology |
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194 | (1) |
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Part III Peterson on Feminism and Reason: By Marion Trejo and Ben Burgis |
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195 | (30) |
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On Peterson's Anti-Feminism: By Marion Trejo |
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197 | (3) |
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The Use of Radical Feminism as a Synecdoche for Feminism The Mischaracterization of Patriarchy as Tyranny |
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200 | (4) |
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The Misrepresentation of Gender Equality and the Use of Natural Order to Justify Gender Differences |
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204 | (3) |
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The Recourse to a Male Victimization Narrative to Displace Women's Issues |
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207 | (2) |
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On Lobsters, Logic and the Pitfalls of Good Rhetoric: By Ben Burgis |
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209 | (16) |
| Endnotes |
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