My main grip with Peterson is that he brought the worst of European (franco-german) philosophy and pseudoscience to the US.
I despise continental philosophy, it isn't actionable, it's nice if you want tenets, but useless if you want thinking. I despise the Frankfurt school for that reason. Which makes me dislike Peterson even more, because he dislike it too, but use the same kind of continental philosophy techniques, strawmen and overall a very bad critics of it (and mix it with post-structuralism, which, well, makes me believe he at most read Wikipedia pages on the works, and not the works themselves).
But truly, what I hate is him bringing Freud and Jung to the US. Psychoanalysisand 'dream interpretation' already did enough damage in France ffs, why would you bring _that_ to the anglo-saxon world.
His political opinions, I do not care about. I think he was mistreated by academics in his country, mostly because they do not respect him, and because he showed how flawed their system was (like the Bogdanov brothers in France did for physics)
I despise continental philosophy, it isn't actionable, it's nice if you want tenets, but useless if you want thinking. I despise the Frankfurt school for that reason. Which makes me dislike Peterson even more, because he dislike it too, but use the same kind of continental philosophy techniques, strawmen and overall a very bad critics of it (and mix it with post-structuralism, which, well, makes me believe he at most read Wikipedia pages on the works, and not the works themselves).
But truly, what I hate is him bringing Freud and Jung to the US. Psychoanalysisand 'dream interpretation' already did enough damage in France ffs, why would you bring _that_ to the anglo-saxon world.
His political opinions, I do not care about. I think he was mistreated by academics in his country, mostly because they do not respect him, and because he showed how flawed their system was (like the Bogdanov brothers in France did for physics)