Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-12-12
Jordan Peterson, Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #506
506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan
Dr. Jordan B.
Graham Linehan discussed Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer. Jordan Peterson discussed Cato by Joseph Addison and others, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Andrew Doyle discussed The Trial by Franz Kafka and Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Black Comedy
Discussed“I had I was asked to write uh an accompanying uh play for a Peter schaer farce which I love called black comedy which just got the most extraordinary um premise”
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Cato
Joseph Addison's classic classical drama explores themes of liberty, tyranny, virtue, and stoic resolve through the historical figure of Cato the Younger.
Discussed“Now, of course, her name is going to escape me; it's Titania McGrath, yes, of course—of course. You wrote a book as her that was very comical, and you had and still have—how active is Titania McGrath now?”
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The Trial
Franz Kafka's renowned novel "The Trial" tells the chilling story of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is abruptly arrested on his birthday for an unspecified crime by an amorphous, incomprehensible judicial system.
Discussed“now you'll know the novel The Trial no presumption of innocence right”
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Macbeth
Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a classic tragedy exploring unchecked ambition, guilt, and the devastating moral consequences of treachery.
Discussed“He wasn’t interested in plots; you have Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet—could you change a single syllable and improve it?”
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Les Miserables
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is an epic 1862 French novel following ex-convict Jean Valjean and other characters against a sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century social injustice and revolution.
Discussed“There's a great book by Victor Hugo about artistic genius, and he estimates that about three or four major artistic geniuses emerge in every generation.”
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Venus and Adonis
Discussed“for instance with with Shakespeare you know he can't right produce his narrative poems Venus and Adonis or rap crease without patronage”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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“the tour deals with the issues that I raised in my new book which came out on November 19th uh it's called we who wrestle with God and in that book I take apart a sequence of Old Testament stories”
“The tour deals with the issues I raised in my new book, which came out on November 19th.”
“It's called 'We Who Wrestle With God,' and in that book, I take apart a sequence of Old Testament stories and explain at least part of what they mean, as far as I'm concerned.”
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