Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-02-26
Books mentioned on 426. Sex, Death, & Storytelling | Andrew Klavan
Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks with author and podcaster Andrew Klavan.
Jordan Peterson discussed Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed by E L James, and The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Andrew Klavan recommended The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, and discussed Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound psychological novel that explores guilt, morality, and the severe consequences of moral relativism and nihilism.
Discussed“he's a thriller writer a writer of crime fiction very much influenced by dooski Crime and Punishment”
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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler is a quintessential hardboiled detective novel that introduced private investigator Philip Marlowe and established the shadowy, cynical atmosphere of Los Angeles crime fiction.
Discussed“He is also the instigator of several great movies, like 'The Big Sleep'.”
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Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed
Discussed“you see the same sort of thing pop up for example in 50 Shades of Gray which is again an archetypal example of the feminine proclivity for a certain kind of structured pornography”
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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is a celebrated hardboiled detective novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.
Recommended“I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel.”
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein by Mary W.
Discussed“i write a chapter on Frankenstein in which I make the argument that Frankenstein the do Frankenstein who creates this monster has not violated as Mary Shelly did has not violated God's prerogative”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical novel that explores deep spiritual questions surrounding faith, free will, morality, and the human condition.
Discussed“and that's why he gets such wonderful arguments in Brothers karamazov uh because he confronted all the hardest arguments”
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“and people like Ernest Becker made much of that in his denial of death which is actually really a great book”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I'm going to use the tour to walk through some of the ideas I've been working on my forthcoming book out November 2024 we who wrestle with God”
“I wrote A Memoir of my conversion to Christianity called the great good thing”
“and recently I wrote a book called the truth and Beauty which was about the Romantic right”
“and recently I wrote a book called the truth and Beauty which was about the Romantic right”
“i in uh in the truth and Beauty I write a chapter on Frankenstein”
“i in uh in the truth and Beauty I write a chapter on Frankenstein”