Zizek Vs Peterson Debate Full

Capitalism vs marxism had been billed and talked about like a heavyweight fight since its announcement in.

Zizek vs peterson debate full. 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. The peterson žižek encounter was the ultra rare case of a debate in 2019 that was perhaps too civil. After much back and forth on social media clinical psychologist jordan peterson and slovenian socialist philosopher slavoj zizek finally took the stage together. In what was billed as the debate of the century perhaps due to the iconic status of the two public intellectuals that also happen to be diametrically opposed to each other.

But it did reveal one telling commonality. Billed by some as the debate of the century the event had more tickets scalped than the toronto maple leafs boston. The grauniad s report the debate of the century. What happened when jordan peterson debated slavoj žižek.

Marxism was a debate between canadian psychologist jordan peterson and slovenian philosopher slavoj žižek on the relationship between marxism capitalism and happiness. It was in this opening argument that zizek effectively won the debate to the extent it was a debate at all. They needed enemies needed combat because in their solitudes they had so little to offer. It was billed as a meeting of titans and that it was not.

Peterson had trapped himself into a zero sum game zizek had opened up a universe of. The zizek vs peterson debate. 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. The peterson žižek debate officially titled happiness.

I posted this yesterday but the volume was too low so now it s been raised. The controversial thinkers sic debated happiness capitalism and marxism in toronto. It took place at the sony centre for the performing arts in toronto on 19 april 2019 and was moderated by stephen j.