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Index
Acknowledgements
Jordan Peterson as a Symptom...of What?: By Slavoj Žižek
Introduction
Part I—Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Post-Modernism: By Matthew McManus
Chapter One: Intellectual Roots
Peterson and the Inner Life
Man’s Search for Meaning
The Emptiness of Post-Modernity
Chapter Two: The Generation of Meaning
The Structure of Maps of Meaning
The Idealist Dialectic Between Order and Chaos Part One: Theoretical Overview
The Idealist Dialectical Between Order and Chaos Part Two: The Divine Father and the Great Mother
The Return to Good and Evil
Concluding Thoughts and the Turn to Justice
Chapter Three: Jordan Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Conservatism
The Individual and Society
On Lobsters and Labour: The Social Necessity of Hierarchy
Cleaning One’s Room Before Putting the World in Order
Concluding Thoughts on Petersonian Politics
Chapter Four: The Critique of the Left
Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part I
Comrade Marx, Post-Modern Neo-Marxism and Saint Peterson Part II
Chapter Five: Conclusion
The Reactionary Impulse and Post-Modernity
What Can the Left Take Away from Jordan Peterson?
Part II—Peterson’s Reckoning with the Left: By Conrad Hamilton
Introduction
Chapter Six: Peterson’s Showbiz Roots, OR from the Lecture Hall to Hollywood
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Peterson
Myth, Mayhem and Biology
Peterson’s Primordial Patriarchy
Maps of Public Funding
The Birth of Controversy
Conclusion: Political Correctness, Prejudiced Directness
Chapter Seven: Exoteric and Esoteric, OR the Terrible Intensity of Peterson
Janus-Faced Fascisms
Peterson’s Illiberal Liberalism
The Psychoanalytic Structure of Disavowal
The All-Devouring Archetype
Conclusion: Peterson’s Forsworn Shadow
Chapter Eight: The Spectre of Post-Modern Neo-Marxism
Marx’s Steady Haunting
The Rhetorical Figure of Communism
When in Need, Invent a Neologism
Peterson’s (Non-) Reading of Derrida
Différance and DNA
Derrida Contra the Althusserian Apparatus
Ghastly Evaluations
Peterson, Derrida and Big ‘B’ Being
Chapter Nine: The Rebate of the Century, OR How Žižek Could’ve DESTROYED Peterson
The Great Debate: Origin and Structure
Proposition 1: History is to be viewed primarily as an economic class struggle
Proposition 2: Marx believes that all hierarchical structures exist because of capitalism
Proposition 3: Marx doesn’t acknowledge the existence of nature
Proposition 4: Marx believes history can be conceived as a binary class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie
Proposition 5: Marx assumes that all good is on the side of the proletariat and all the evil is on the side of the bourgeoisie
Proposition 6: That the dictatorship of the proletariat must be brought about as the first stage of communist revolution
Proposition 7: Nothing that capitalists do constitutes valid labour
Proposition 8: Profit is theft
Proposition 9: The dictatorship of the proletariat will become magically productive
Proposition 10: Marx and Engels admit that capitalism is the most productive system of production ever, yet still wish to overthrow it
Conclusion: Buying and Selling Ideology
Part III—Peterson on Feminism and Reason: By Marion Trejo and Ben Burgis
On Peterson’s Anti-Feminism: By Marion Trejo
The Use of Radical Feminism as a Synecdoche for Feminism
The Mischaracterization of Patriarchy as Tyranny
The Misrepresentation of Gender Equality and the Use of Natural Order to Justify Gender Differences
The Recourse to a Male Victimization Narrative to Displace Women’s Issues
On Lobsters, Logic and the Pitfalls of Good Rhetoric: By Ben Burgis
Endnotes
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