"he is a pretentious charlatan who incarnates the worst of all contemporary French intellectual life: A controversial new book published in France claims to reveal the real man behind the dangerously unbuttoned white shirts, the designer suits, the rhetorical flourishes and the bestselling 'investigative novels'. It accuses Levy of plagiarism, fabrication, hypocrisy and benefiting from a network of media contacts who protect him from all criticism....'His thinking is entirely unoriginal. There is this idea that he is a philosopher when actually he is representative of nothing other than the pauperisation of French intellectual life.' He has been also accused of over-simplifying complex issues for mass consumption."