
Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
Philosophy Bites
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Status Anxiety
The Consulations of Philosophy achieved amazing success. But some academic philosophers reacted quite strongly against it. I became abroad in a kind of turf war with certain academics. It really does seem a pity because this is the narcissism of small differences. We should all have been friends and basically on the same side. But instead there were some battles.
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