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Rick Roderick lectures
rickroderick.org
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2017–2026 · score 1.8
A series of lectures by the late philosopher Rick Roderick on modern and postmodern European philosophy, including critical theory and the debates of the 1980s. A second series covers the history of Western philosophy.
Commenters call the lectures incredible and recommend them as a clear antidote to attacks on postmodernist thinkers.
Humanities & Social Scienceintermediatefreevideo lectures#postmodernism#critical theory#continental philosophy#history of philosophy#roderick
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+1 These are incredible lectures and there's another series from Rick Roderick on the history of western philosophy that I also love: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxPmwaGMOAvsZp9vavFkyxYFZ...
Peterson is one of tre most repulsive figures in modern (political/philosophical) discourse, in my eyes. His strawmen only make sense if you either know nothing about any most modern theorists or philosophy in general or if you need some narrative to sustain your beliefs that (((something))) went wrong. In short, besides being absolutely no authority on the issue, extremely emotional most of the time, he's constantly trying to push the story that "his side" is the rational, sane and logical , while everyone he opposes can be put into a nice linear group from Marx over Lenin & Stalin to Derrida and the rest of the "post modernists". And at the risk of being dismissed as a paranoid, I'm going to point out that there is a certain anti-semitic undertone to all of this, just like with the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy, that has surprising parallels to Peterson's story. It might not be his main point, or any point part of his actual argument at all, but his proud fanbase of "Kekistanis, Pepe memers, alt-right Nazis"[0], sure might.
And regarding this said fanbase, the fact that they're de facto paying him ~$60.000 a month[1] to play their intellectual "red piller", will probably not help him become more objective, if you ask me.
As a great antidote I'd recommend Rick Roderick's lectures[2], since already back in the 80's the same arguments were being put out against these alleged horrible post modernists, treating them as some destoryers of civilisation. In short, he's a hack.
[0] https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/87194043854615756..., http://kekistan.wikia.com/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
[1] https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
[2] http://rickroderick.org/