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* Alain de Botton interview: " The City as a Cure for Loneliness "
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Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.
Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.
As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.
Alain de Lille has often been confounded with other persons named Alain, in particular with another Alanus ( Alain, bishop of Auxerre ), Alan, abbot of Tewkesbury, Alain de Podio, etc.
On the other hand, it now seems practically demonstrated that Alain de Lille was the author of the Ars catholicae fidei and the treatise Contra haereticos.
Alain de Benoist of the Nouvelle Droite ( New Right ) produced a highly critical essay on Hayek's work in an issue of Telos, citing the flawed assumptions behind Hayek's idea of " spontaneous order " and the authoritarian, totalizing implications of his free-market ideology.
Alain Pellet, an international law scholar, criticizes " human rightism " approach as denying the principle of sovereignty and claiming a special place for human rights among the branches of international law ; Alain de Benoist questions human rights premises of human equality.
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Recent lecturers include Michael Sandel, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Sir Ken Robinson, Don Tapscott, Alain de Botton, Al Gore, Anthony Grayling, Zarine Kharas ( founder of Justgiving ), Amir Aczel, Daniel Pink and Chris Anderson.
In the 19th and in the 21st centuries, Thorstein Veblen ( The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, 1899 ) and Alain de Botton ( Status Anxiety, 2004 ) respectively developed the social status ( prestige ) relationship between the producer of consumer goods and the aspirations to prestige of the consumer.
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