Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson

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Contents
Dedication
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