Debate Peterson Zizek Review

Im gonna flash my tits at the peterson zizek debate dasha dasha 1551456250 0 accordingly the sold out debate was nothing more than a spectacle of the two men performing their bits as eccentric academics a particular celebrity niche or archetype as peterson might say created by today s intellectual dark web.

Debate peterson zizek review. After attending the debate in toronto between psychology professor and self help book author jordan peterson and slovenian philosopher slavoj žižek my skepticism remains but with a caveat. Marxism the structure of the debate was that each participant presented a thirty minute introduction followed by a series of brief ten minute responses to one another. In the debate peterson presented a model of 10 problems he finds in marxism exemplified in the communist manifesto. Jordan peterson vs slavoj zizek was more a performance than a debate last nights sold out debate between slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek and canadian psychologist jordan peterson at the sony.

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. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness. From ben shapiro offering alexandria ocasio cortez 10 000 to debate him to the macho showdown between jordan peterson and slavoj žižek public discourse has become debased.

It was in this opening argument that zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all. I recognize the incentive benefits that capitalism brings and the security nets of socialism when the free market fails. As a liberal zizek is a little too communist for me. The title of the debate was happiness.

The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of.