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Jordan Peterson vs. Slavoj Zizek: who won?
Hyped to be a colossal collision of right and left-wing thought, the debate offered only a single major insight: one of the belligerents was a lazy fraud, write GEORGE WEST and ALEXANDER NORTON
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
OPENING up, greasy, lobster-venerating psychologist-cum-public-figure Jordan Peterson revelled in the fact that ticket touts were charging more for this clash of supposed intellectual heavyweights than they were for the for the ice-hockey final taking place down the road.
The audience whooped and cheered — surely they were in for a treat, or even part of something historic: had philosophy become the new rock ’n’ roll? Or would they be able to say: “I was there” when right slew left — or vice versa?
In a word — no. One minor truth of our time would be revealed, but through the paucity of the debate rather than its profundity.
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