Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson review – a ragbag of self-help dictums

There is too much messianic passion and not enough enlightening psychology in Peterson ’s follow-up to the bestselling 12 Rules for LifeFew books in recent years have had quite so noisy a cultural impact asJordan Peterson ’s12 Rulesfor Life: An Antidote to Chaos. With its odd mixture of Darwinian determinism, Jungian myth-interpretation and Heideggerian ontology (Being written with a capital B!), it was an unlikely self-help manual and an even unlikelier bestseller. But its dozen behavioural rules for leading a meaningful life rode a steep wave of frustration with the shibboleths of postmodernity.Peterson ’s radical traditionalism was seen as a bracing corrective to the notion that there was no objective truth, only a matrix of prejudicial power relations. Social hierarchies, he argued, were the product of evolution rather than of capitalist exploitation.Continue reading...
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