Zizek Peterson Debate Time
If history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce the chomsky vs.
Zizek peterson debate time. During the recent debate between slavoj zizek and jordan peterson zizek quite explicitly challenged peterson on his repeated criticism of so called postmod. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness. Foucault debate of 1971 was the tragedy and the.
It was in this opening argument that zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all. 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. The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil. The event was billed as the debate of the century the rumble.
žižek the philosopher exists on a planet that has a pretty close relationship with. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of. Last night jordan peterson and slavoj žižek debated each other at the sony centre in toronto. 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.
žižek and peterson could not have offered a more stark contrast. As i said before the april 19 debate between jordan peterson and slavoj žižek is a great waste of time. Peterson responded to the cambridge broadsheet by tweeting he would meet zizek any time any place to debate their differences in public much to the delight of fans and detractors the callout followed an earlier attempt to contact zizek via twitter only for peterson to discover he was conversing with a zizek quote bot account.