
Myth and Mayhem
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Conrad Hamilton is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, currently developing a thesis on the relationship between social agency and the value form in the works of Marx under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. He is also a contributor to Zero Books' What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times, publishing in 2020. He lives in Paris, France.
McManus worked for the Committee for International Justice and Accountability. He completed his PhD in 2017. He is the editor of What Is Post-Modern Conservatism: Essays On Our Hugely Tremendous Times. He lives in Monterrey, Mexico.
Marion Trejo is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She completed her Bachelors in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey and her Masters in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is co-author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, to be released by Zero Books in 2020. She lives in Monterrey, Mexico.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Jordan Peterson as a Symptom...of What?: By Slavoj Zizek
- 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 Zizek 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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