Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-04-25
Books mentioned on 247. The War On The West | Douglas Murray
This episode was recorded on March 14th, 2022. In this episode, Douglas Murray and I discuss the current assault on the West, slavery, gratitude, racist mathematics, whiteness, (non-Western) accomplishments, and individual sovereignty.
Douglas Murray discussed The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and others, Orientalism by Edward W. Said, and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and criticized How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals offers a radical critique of traditional morality, tracing the historical development of concepts like guilt, conscience, and the slave revolt in ethics.
Discussed“well i i quote in the opening and um and later on in the book as you know a phrase of nature which i sort of add to from the genealogy of morals when nietzsche refers it um in passing but i think he's such a remarkable phrase i wanted to to bring it out and throw it to the”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Critiqued“i mean candy is perfectly open about the fact that in response to one thing it might be necessary to punish another group he says it completely completely frankly in in his most famous book how to be ironically titled in inappropriately titled how to be an anti-racist”
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Orientalism
Orientalism by Edward W.
Discussed“i point out again with one of the most prominent postcolonial writers edward syed who every benighted student has had to study and almost any university has come across orientalism at some point and one of saeed's fundamental critiques of the west is that it sort of it essentializes people in the east and you know there's quite a lot”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Discussed“i quote dostoyevsky as you know from the brothers karamazov where the devil the devil is incapable of is incapable of gratitude um which i i is it is deeply telling and brilliant”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i'm pleased to be talking today to mr douglas murray who is associate editor of the spectator and is now based in new york his latest publication the madness of crowds was a bestseller”
“his last publication the madness of krauts was a bestseller and book of the year for the times and the sunday times is the book before that the strange death of europe immigration identity islam was published by bloomsbury in may 2017.”
“i've just finished his latest book which is not out yet the war on the west when is it out douglas it's out on the 26th of april so um hopefully by the time people see this it will be out yeah”
“i laid out in the strange death of europe what i think of as being not just my own but certainly modern europe's current malays in regards to the christian tradition”