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What is the /lit/erary consensus on this man and his works?

>> No.16604648

>>16604633
He needs to read the greeks, anon.

>> No.16604728
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>>16604633
He's a run-of-the-mill late-20th century effeminate atheist humanist who misrepresents every philosopher he has ever articulated in order to make them parrot his effeminate atheistic humanism, as if he is doing the world a service by being such a mealymouthed faggot. Or so I've heard.

>> No.16604747

>>16604728
/thread

>> No.16604761

>De Botton was born in Zürich, the son of Jacqueline (née Burgauer) and Gilbert de Botton, who was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and expelled under Nasser.
>Alain de Botton's Swiss-born mother was Ashkenazi, and his father was from a Sephardic Jewish family from the town of Boton[clarification needed] in Castile and León.

>> No.16605966

>>16604633
Seething bald incel who forgot to hop on finasteride early. Herald of Eternal Zion.

>> No.16606400

>>16604633
Philosophy is basically all about sex and finding sex.

>> No.16606466

>>16604633
is this the guy from the school of life