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Jordan Peterson similarly to both Tolstoy and Maistre attacks postmodernism not from what it is, but create an intellectual quarantine, attacking core intellectuals, even lumping them together with Northern-Amercan progressiveness, rather than seeing these as separate.
He rejects the scale of postmodernism, even in his own direction, such as their openness to the idea of religion, existentialism, libertarianism. He never mentions the idea of a right-wing and left-wing postmodernism either.
To give strength to his anti-intellectual bias, Peterson states that postmodernism started with Foucault and Derrida, when it started with Lyotard in 1979.
He then doesn't make postmodernism the result of unease, but the cause of it, and puts himself and others at a position of higher thinking ,while other intellectuals are merely trying to speed up a western decay.
Peterson for example paints Derrida as someone who was hellbent on destroying western civilization, when Derrida was focused on repeated dialogue within western civilization, and believed his deconstruction was releasing the full potential of western structuralism. Derrida taught western philosophy for most of his life as his largest occupation, and one needs extensive knowledge of this philosophy to be able to understand his works without a secondary source.
Derrida also was the most notable critic of deconstruction as well as its biggest advocate, and he was already criticizing it in '66, around the time Jordan Peterson frames him as a Marxist who's intentionally targeting the western paradigm.