Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson | Postmodernism: definition and critique (with a few comments on its relationship with Marxism)

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This is from today’s AMA on Reddit: http://j.mp/2s2TIEL DEFINITION AND CRITIQUE Postmodernism is essentially the claim that (1) since there are an innumerable number of ways in which the world can be interpreted and perceived (and those are tightly associated) then (2) no canonical manner of interpretation can be reliably derived. That’s the fundamental claim. An…
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Jordan Peterson | On the New York Times and “Enforced Monogamy”

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My motivated critics couldn’t contain their joyful glee this week at discovering my hypothetical support for a Handmaid’s Tale-type patriarchal social structure as (let’s say) hinted at in Nellie Bowles’ New York Times article presenting her take on my ideas. It’s been a truism among anthropologists and biologically-oriented psychologists for decades that all human societies face…
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