1. This @jbouie piece on the whitewashing of the Enlightenment is, as expected, excellent:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html …
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2. A few footnotes. As Bouie notes, the recent advocates of the Enlightenment are conservatives & centrists (Pinker, Goldbeg, Jordan Peterson) creating a usable past. It's worth noting how badly their own commitments fit their fictional intellectual history.
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3. If Jordan Peterson's talk of Female Chaos & Male Order really Enlightenment? Nope. it draws on mythologists (Jung, Eliade, Campbell) rooted in Germanic romanticism (a mystical & anti-Enlightenment tradition).
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Bouie is making a dubious connection bet Peterson and the Enlightenment. Peterson himself doesn't base his opposition to postmodernism on Enlightenment thought. I've never seen him even mention it.
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See below. Also Peterson claims to be a "classical liberal" which is a wing of the Enlightenment.pic.twitter.com/xfFziann33
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