Debate Zizek Y Peterson

Why nobody lost and we all won by greg scorzo on april 19 2019 slavoj zizek and jordan peterson had a debate at the toronto sony centre.

Debate zizek y peterson. Peterson somehow thought he would be debating an orthodox marxist and rather than addressing anything zizek has written or said made a bizarre gambit where he distilled and attempted to refute 10 empirically contestable points from the communist manifesto and only from the manifesto. Z iz ek peterson debate happiness. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of. The zizek vs peterson debate.

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. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness. Ticket prices reportedly went as high as 1 500 not for a game in the nba playoffs but to see these two prominent public intellectuals duke it out over human nature and economic systems. As a young lefty i was drawn to the work of slavoj zizek not simply because of his iconoclasm but because he seemed so much more interesting than your average leftist.

It took place at the sony centre for the performing arts in toronto on 19 april 2019 and was moderated by stephen j. As the debate continued peterson kept pushing žižek on the topic of marxism and implored žižek to clarify his stance with regards to marx. Marxism transcript of opening statement below is the transcript of zizek s introductory statement. 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.

No intertextuality no reference to marx s other works or to the marxist canon. In the wake of saturday s debate between intellectual superstars slavoj zizek and jordan peterson an onslaught of mockery has appeared online satirizing the clash between the highly memeable thinkers. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer.