Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-03-24
Books mentioned on 532. A Dialogue So Dangerous, It Just Might Bring You Wisdom | John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall
Dr. Jordan B.
Jordan Hall discussed A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze. Jordan Peterson recommended Awakening From the Meaning Crisis by Christopher Mastropietro and others, and discussed The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is a prominent philosophical work that explores complex concepts of capitalism, schizophrenia, and social structures.
Discussed“I'm in the office at the Google headquarters where I'm going to be meeting with Serge Brin ... and so in the in the moment where I'm about to actually have a serious business meeting about my company being acquired by what at the time was by Def by steps the ascendant giant of the space my curiosity is still”
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The Sovereignty of Good
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch is a collection of philosophical essays exploring morality, attention, and the elimination of self-centeredness.
Discussed“and this you just made Iris Murdoch's argument in the sovereignty of the good she talks about the example of the Mother-in-law who has like this attitude towards her daughter-in-law”
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Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Awakening From the Meaning Crisis is a comprehensive exploration of the historical, psychological, and philosophical roots of modern existential disconnection, co-authored by Christopher Mastropietro and John Vervaeke.
Recommended“talked about that in uh in the book uh Awakening from the meaning crisis”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so in this new book I wrote that we who wrestle with God one of the things I pointed out was that the god of the Old Testament and this continues in the New Testament as well is characterized very fundamentally in multiple ways”
“I investigated that a little bit in we who wrestle with God anthropologically I mean part of the reason for that was well imagine that there are relatively isolated cities and a stranger comes in with Wares to trade”