Zizek Peterson Full Debate

Marxism transcript of opening statement below is the transcript of zizek s introductory statement.

Zizek peterson full debate. Although even the dalai lama justifies tibetan buddhism in western terms in the full suite of happiness and the avoidance of pain happiness as a goal of our life is a very. Full debate and breakdown. Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of. Tonight philosopher slavoj žižek will debate psychologist jordan peterson in toronto ostensibly on the subject of capitalism vs.

The marxist zizek had it out with the traditionalist peterson who defended the free market in a debate on whether capitalism or marxism better leads to happiness. The event was billed as the debate of the century the rumble. On february april 19 2019 i debated marxist philosopher slavoj zizek in toro. The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil.

That was a fancy way of saying that such mental processes seemed all too apparent on the april day when jordan peterson went up against slavoj zizek. It has been said of the debate that nothing is a greater waste of time tickets to the livestream are 14 95 and admission to the venue itself was running as high as 1 500. Jordan peterson vs slavoj zizek. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness.

It wasn t just that jordan appeared unprepared it s that he seemed to be conflating certain aspects of left wing ideas in order. Slavoj zizek and jordan peterson debate on the concept of happiness. Peterson discussing happiness capitalism vs. While for some this might not sound like it would generate much interest beyond a philosophy department around 3 000 people packed into the sony centre for the performing.

I posted this yesterday but the volume was too low so now it s been raised. 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. Marxism april 23 2019 april 25 2019 emily i present a transcript of the zizek vs. It was in this opening argument that zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all.