Debate Between Zizek And Peterson

Capitalism pitted jordan peterson against slavoj žižek two of the west s reigning public intellectuals.

Debate between zizek and peterson. Slavoj zizek and jordan peterson debate on the concept of happiness. Peterson przyznał że miał zbyt mało czasu by zapoznać się z obszerną twórczością žižka i zamiast tego przeczytał raz jeszcze manifest komunistyczny. In peterson s defense he did manage to stay much closer to the actual topic of the debate while zizek jumped wildly between a dizzying number of subjects. In intellectual circles the recent debate of the century between the canadian psychologist jordan peterson and slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek was a real heavyweight bout on april 19th at.

Peterson noted at the outset that he d set a personal milestone. Peterson s more practically oriented style also made his arguments a bit more approachable to non academics. Last nights sold out debate between slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek and canadian psychologist jordan peterson at the sony centre was pitched as a no holds barred throw down between two of the. Marxism was a debate between canadian psychologist jordan peterson a critic of marxism and slovenian philosopher slavoj žižek a marxist on the relationship between marxism capitalism and happiness it took place at the sony centre for the performing arts in toronto on 19 april 2019 and was moderated by stephen j.

During the recent debate between slavoj zizek and jordan peterson zizek quite explicitly challenged peterson on his repeated criticism of so called postmod. The event was billed as the debate of the century the rumble. Stubhub tickets to the debate were going for more money than maple leafs playoff tickets a big deal in toronto. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer.

The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil.