I find it really hard to say anything at all about Alain's work. It's such a nothing burger. In the work of his I've encountered, he regularly quotes old philo

I find it really hard to say anything at all about Alain's work. It's such a nothing burger. In the work of his I've encountered, he regularly quotes old philosophers without adding anything new, and trying to apply the knowledge of old in new ways. Reading old philosophers and engaging with their work directly, produces the effect of transforming it into your own understanding, you don't need a middleman to re-apply it for you. His work feels like someone writing as it were a performance, rather than an act of discovery.