Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Episode: You are the Target | James Lindsay | EP 367

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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Das Kapital

by Karl Marx

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"If we focus on his economic analysis in 'Capital', we miss the entire picture."
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Phänomenologie des Geistes

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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"So these sects that you're referring to in the Middle Ages of kind of bizarre Christianity were actually Gnostic heresies that were developing, and I think that by means of Hegel coming down through Marx, who inverted it, I believe we actually are looking at a Gnostic heresy hidden inside of economics, social — in fact, if we read 'Phenomenology of Spirit' from Hegel, 1807, a publication, you get distinctly the sense that what he means by spirit is what he says he means by spirit."
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One-Dimensional Man

by Herbert Marcuse

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"So we go back to our neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse writing in 'One-Dimensional Man'... and what is he saying? What's his argument?"
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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

by Bjørn Lomborg, Bjorn Lomborg

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"Bjorn wrote a book a while back called 'How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place,' which is an intelligent approach to... I wouldn't say the polycrisis because that isn't how he frames it!"
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COVID-19

by Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret

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"Did you read Klaus Schwab's 'Great Reset'? I did, and quite the aggregation of clichés."
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The Great Narrative

by Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret

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"So 'The Great Narrative,' his second book that he wrote… well, it's his fourth, really, but the second book he wrote in that series is much more poignant."
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An Essay on Liberation

by Herbert Marcuse

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"What did Marcuse write in '69? He wrote in 'An Essay on Liberation' that it's crucial that the resistance, meaning the radicals, take on the form, he said this, the clownish forms that so irritate the establishment."