Zizek On Peterson Debate

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.

Zizek on peterson debate. 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. The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil. Zizek versus peterson peterson argues against the postmodern neo marxist position held by in his terms the radical left this position emerged during the 60s but was initiated by the frankfurt school which emerged after world war ii as a response to the rise of fascism in europe. It was in this opening argument that zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all.

Below is the transcript of zizek s introductory statement. On february april 19 2019 i debated marxist philosopher slavoj zizek in toro. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer.

Peterson not having found time to read any of žižek s books launched instead into an attack on the communist manifesto. It took place at the sony centre for the performing arts in toronto on 19 april 2019 and was moderated by stephen j. I posted this yesterday but the volume was too low so now it s been raised. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness.

Marxism was a debate between canadian psychologist jordan peterson and slovenian philosopher slavoj žižek on the relationship between marxism capitalism and happiness. The title of the debate was happiness. Billed by some as the debate of the century the event had more tickets scalped than the toronto maple leafs boston. Last night jordan peterson and slavoj žižek debated each other at the sony centre in toronto.

First a brief introductory remark.