By its conclusion, we've strayed far from the "drama of the mind", at least in the personal sense; the novel is filled with digressions into pure mathematics and the most esoteric reaches of international investment banking, both arenas in which theoretical abstraction and real-world consequences coexist.
Despite Chomsky's sui generis reputation, it's unusual to find linguists, who are usually associated with the more esoteric reaches of academe, represented as super heroes or in this case heroine--who save the world.
Nietzsche, the esoteric moralist, wants to reach only select individuals — those nascent higher human beings who are "predisposed and predestined" for his ideas — and alter their consciousness about morality.
However, many of the themes were probably too esoteric for Westerners to grasp, beyond the reach of even some of us "China hands".
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Whereas sophisticated art often reaches out for the esoteric and the unusual, the content of folk art is closely related to immediate human concerns.
The utopias philosophers imagined are just as difficult to reach, requiring a mastery of esoteric dialogue (like Plato's) or dialectical theory (like Karl Marx's).
But to understand why gun control in particular was the bridge too far, it's worth reaching for a slightly more esoteric political category — namely, "liberaltarianism," a phrase coined in 2006 by Brink Lindsey, then of the Cato Institute, to describe the possibility of a liberal-libertarian rapprochement.
Every so often, a seemingly esoteric event in New York captures the public imagination, reaching the buzzy, must-see status more often reserved for canonized artists like Vincent van Gogh or Leonardo da Vinci.
This feeling I was experiencing of having done something new was a larger, deeper, more esoteric sensation, something that existed simultaneously out of reach and on the tip of my tongue.
Although Hubbard spoke openly about space opera in the 1950s, Scientology eventually became an esoteric faith: some teachings are withheld until followers reach a certain point in their spiritual development, and the mythological foundation of the courses are unknown to many members.
