/lit/ - Literature

>>11408376
>implying he has read Nietzsche

>>11408376
He mentions on many occasions that he read Foucault.

>>11408384
Nietzsche is one of his favorites, just like his idol, Jung.

Neech, Jung, Dostoy, and Solzhenitsyn are literally the only 4 writers he has ever cited.
>>11408392
never heard him quote Foucault literally once in all the hours of his shit I've wasted my time on.

>>11408397
but He takes shit on nietzsche, he said a lot of unacceptable thing for someone whose favorite phliosopher as nietzsche

>>11408405
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/960744993005518853?lang=en
Cheers

>>11408426
How so?

>>11408426

You can recognize someone as an intellectual inspiration without accepted everything they believed to be the case.

>>11408405
He mentions Hegel, Kant, and a bunch of other philosophers too

>>11408431
he was literally quoting that from the article he retweeted
>This first thesis—that all discourse is fundamentally about power—finds its philosophical origins in the likes of post-modernists such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. To quote Foucault, “Discourses are tactical elements or blocks operating in the field of force relations.” Thus, on Foucalt’s view, if all discourse is, at heart, really just veiled force relations between competing groups; if language isn’t fundamentally capable of being about objective truth or about the world in any meaningful sense, then the ink symbols written on the page and the shaped air admitted from one’s mouth in the forms of ‘rationality’, ‘facts’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘truth’ are just another set of weapons in a person’s overall arsenal to seize and maintain power, no different in kind from weapons of a physical sort.

>>11408446
Mentioning a philosopher in an offhand way is not engaging with their material and actually citing them. His analysis of Being in Heidegger is one of the cringiest undergraduate things I have ever read, where, once again, he never uses a single quote from his work.

>>11408376
He often refers to Derrida when he's on one of his "postmodernism boogeyman" rants

>>11408397
He hasn't read him, he has said Nietzsche was a nihilist and the nihilism he describes has more to do with Strider than Nietzsche himself.
I don't blame him though, he is a psychologist not a philosopher (though he getting into philosophy is his fault)

>>11408376
>implying he reads

>>11408376
GOONAN

Bastardises a lot of what Emerson talks about, but has never referenced him to my knowledge.

>>11408376
>Jordan Peterson was born in Fairview, Alberta, and lived there until he went to college. As a teenager, Peterson became close friends with his local Member of the Legislative Assembly, Grant Notley. Notley was the leader of the provincial socialist party, the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP). Peterson became an NDP activist and got to know Grant Notley’s daughter Rachel, who would later become Premier of Alberta.
>Peterson was brought up in a Protestant church-going home, but he abandoned Christianity because he could not reconcile the Bible’s account of Creation with Evolution. He subsequently developed a keen interest in books and politics. West writes:
>“At thirteen, he started reading serious political books. Authors of interest included Ayn Rand, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and George Orwell – three authors who warned against the evils of collectivism and totalitarianism.”

>>11409272
>Peterson became an NDP activist
>socialist New Democratic Party
>Peterson became a socialist activist
what did he mean by this??

>>11409293
Manchurian candidate, etc, etc

>>11409272
>serious political books
>Ayn Rand, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and George Orwell

>>11408376
He's read the Gulag Archipelago and Road to Serfdom, that's about it outside of Jung.

>>11409340

I'll never tire of this picture. It has just the perfect expression of weary disgust.