re: Where does this board stand on Jordan Peterson?

Didn't he also say that he stayed up for 25 days straight or something?

I take issue with some of Peterson's characterizations of French Postmodern thought, especially Derrida. I'm pretty sure he's never read him, which is disappointing, as Derrida was amazingly meticulous philosopher. Suggesting Deconstruction is responsible for Postmodernity, or even plays a part in it, is to misrepresent both French Postmodernity and Deconstruction. His suggestion that Derrida was "anti-Western" is nonsensical, as Derrida works from Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and others, all of whom are clearly in the Western tradition. Derrida was more versed in the classics and Enlightenment thinkers than he's given credit for, given his long passages on Plato and Rousseau, the latter of whom takes up a long section of Of Grammatology. Derrida and the Frankfurt School (another group which is barely read, understood, but easily maligned) are easy scapegoats for a series of complex issues that appear in Western philosophical tradition. I don't think Peterson does any service to the truth with his representations of it.