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As an ex-academic, I also feel intensely the author's sense that leftist academia bears a lot of responsibility for the absolute wasteland that North American political discourse has become—the environment where Peterson became a superstar.
Peterson's obscurantism is no worse than what is the standard style for critical theory. Humanities scholars have wasted decades on pointless studies of people who are essentially the Continental leftist equivalents of Jordan Peterson.
Peterson interfaces well with the general public, and that's a condition of his success. Compare with the utterly useless Foucault scholars, cloistered away, doing nothing whatsoever to educate the pubic about inequality or injustice.
As a current academic I'll have to disagree. Obscurantism is real and bad, granted, but the idea that the worst offenders, i.e. people like Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Said, Bhahba, have nothing to say or are in any way akin to Peterson is absurd and wrong. False equivalency.
In fact, if people understood Critical Theory a little better (which, granted, is academia's fault moreso than anyone else's) I doubt we would have the horrifying mainstreaming of/return to Peterson-style essentialism that we're seeing right now.
when you say this is no worse than the standard style for critical theory, are you saying that humanities academics are also purposely obscuring their message to appear more enlightened than they are? one of the principles that i was taught while i was a physics major was that --
our discipline often gets super esoteric, THEREFORE we should attempt to be as clear and readable as possible. i have to believe that this is the case for philosophy scholars as well
Sure, but the smuggling in of social darwinism with regular sounding self help stuff...makes him more sinister.
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