/lit/ - Literature

>shows up to debate Zizek
>admits he has never read Marx
I bet he still hasn’t

Anyways he is retarded, if you actually listen to what he’s saying. Case in point: picrel. Nigga doesn’t even know that Germans capitalize their nouns.

>>19511805
jbp is at best a meme populist. why not just read stirner, greeks, and machiavelli instead of some druggie that is only popular for his marketing?

>>16172815
am I supposed to be impressed by his school of life tier philosophy references?

>>16005158
I mostly agree. Normalfags jerk off to him and I really hate that this is the case cause I feel as if he dumbs his shit down a lot to continue to appeal to his fanbase. Even in his lectures he merely references Heidegger and the Dreyfus AI thing, even though it's clear he's well read about it.

You could object to that by saying he misunderstands Heidegger but I don't think this could reasonably be said to be the case. I think he has to bog his thought down because he's a psychologist first, a public self-help figure and political thinker second, a philosopher only third. Essentially third-rate because he's managing other roles as well. Using colloquial language to describe complex concepts makes him essentially unbearable and awkward to read from the perspective of a scholar.

Pic related -- it's not "wrong" if you read it as somebody trying to communicate to the common mind, but it is at the level of philosophy. The remark about "being with a capital B" isn't there cause JBP is simplistic in nature, but clearly because no fucking body buying 12 Rules for Life has a clue who Heidegger is and need to be spoon-fed the thought. Results in the awkward and frankly blunted JBP we see nowadays. I think Maps of Meaning and his personality lectures are the closest we'll get to seeing him do something of real intellectual worth.

>He references all the great writers and thinkers of the past
that's not a good thing if it looks like this in reality

>>11930491
makes me chuckle every time

Why is it when Peterson mentions Derrida he dismisses him as an obscurantist "trickster", but Heidegger gets a free pass?
Has he ever tried to read Being and Time?

>>11686624
If a similar scribble was posted from Lacan's Ecrits, petersonites would screech "gibberish" en masse.

Cats are pure Being, bucko. Wash your penis.

>>11224896
I don't hate Peterson either, but it's pretty accurate to say he doesn't show any proficiency in the field of philosophy.

Is Peterson's analysis on Heidegger correct?

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