Sentence examples for influential intellectual from inspiring English sources

Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age.

By almost any measure, Pierre Bourdieu is France's most influential intellectual.

Knowingly or not, he thus placed the aspirations of his company in direct line of descent from one of history's most influential intellectual movements — the Enlightenment.

Last summer, the French weekly Marianne took a telephone poll and, in the fall, informed its readers that the extravagantly entitled feminist philosophe Elisabeth Badinter was now, officially, the country's "most influential intellectual".

I'm not convinced that this is true, but I am convinced — and wrote at the time — that shutting out this serious and widely influential intellectual was a self-defeating mistake.

Vermeersch, who is eighty-one and was recently voted the most influential intellectual in Flanders, was one of the country's earliest proponents of euthanasia, and he sees the law as his progeny.

Some of the most creative and influential intellectuals in contemporary China have continued to think from Confucian roots.

Subhi wrote this 16-page study for a like-minded online group of influential intellectuals and writers.

And nowhere is the complexity and importance of the affair better and more brilliantly expressed than in the debate between two of France's most influential intellectuals: Elisabeth Badinter and Sylviane Agacinski.

Last Saturday, Moisés Naím — an economist, former editor of Foreign Policy, and one of Venezuela's most influential intellectuals — announced that his program, "The Naím Factor," would no longer be transmitted by Globovision.

Some of South Africa's most influential intellectuals and activists have urged David Cameron to reconsider his plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, warning that the move is reminiscent of the mindset that created apartheid.