Yet, for all his reflections on academic self-delusion, never has there been a critic so rooted in academic habits.
His new series (the first episode aired on BBC2 on Sunday) begins in a secure psychiatric ward in Ohio, with a schizophrenic patient called Jonathan, who murdered his academic father while under delusions of child abuse that he now agrees did not happen.
In my research it has been the people closest to the bomb in action - former Royal Navy officers - who are crystal clear that we should never think of it as independent, while the chattering classes and academics alike bask in the delusion of grandeur.
But I loathed all forms of academic work and was under the delusion that academics could somehow transmit Arabic over the course of four years via exposure and mental trickery.
There are others with schizophrenia and such active symptoms as delusions and hallucinations who have significant academic and professional achievements.
Half the entrepreneurs bought the American machine, but 90% of the managers went for the foreign one.The academics argue that their tests show that entrepreneurs are more prone to both delusion and opportunism than normal managers.
Rouché describes the teacher's behavior as becoming "tyrannical," characterized by delusions of grandeur, manically and irresponsibly exuberant episodes, madly visionary schemes of domestic and academic order, and violent outbursts of domineering anger.
Delusion piled upon delusion.
