The Debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson

Michael Fedorovsky

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)
First Issue

Reviews

The Debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson

Published 01-05-2019

Michael Fedorovsky

Michael Fedorovsky
Independent Researcher

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Fedorovsky, M. (2019). The Debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson. Dialektika: Journal of Philosophical Research and Social Theory, 1(1), 38-44. https://journal.dialektika.org/ojs/index.php/logos/article/view/5

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Abstract

The present collaboration is a review of the debate between the leftist and rightist intellectuals, respectively, Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson. The debate discusses important issues for the social sciences and humanities in general in the contemporary world. In this review, the debate is first contextualized, then the author delves into the main concepts adopted by Peterson in relation to Žižek. It culminates with an analysis of what postmodernism means.

Keywords

Slavoj Žižek, Jordan Peterson, Marxism, Postmodernism, Capitalism

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Author Biography

Michael Fedorovsky

Independent Researcher

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