Sentence examples for intellectual catastrophe from inspiring English sources

The late Edward Said accused him of 'an intellectual catastrophe', promoting 'colonial mythologies about wogs and darkies'.

Albeit, a boomer Garnett who thinks Lolita's British publishers got it right, in 1959, and that trigger warnings for undergraduate readers of Lolita presage intellectual catastrophe.

As Jerry Fodor puts it, "if commonsense psychology were to collapse, that would be, beyond comparison, the greatest intellectual catastrophe in the history of our species …" (1987, p. xii).

To those of us who revere nature and the future generations as sacred, this oil slick is an emotional and intellectual catastrophe.

Nothing creates intellectual confidence like catastrophe.

The intellectual underpinnings of our current catastrophes were created by smart people who made theories explaining that the market is self-correcting, that the American century had dawned and even that history had come to an end with the worldwide victory of the democratic, capitalist state — all ideas of breathtaking stupidity, devised by smart people out of touch with reality.

Sebastian Faulks observed recently that ease of access to the internet is leading to a "net loss of knowledge" in this generation of adults, leaving the modern intellectual world in a "kind of catastrophe".

Both works appeared in 1762, marking the high point of Rousseau's intellectual achievement and leading to personal catastrophe when they were condemned both in Paris and in Geneva on grounds of religious heterodoxy.

"Judith came from a milieu of Berlin intellectuals who could not believe that the impending catastrophe could or would happen," says Rosen.

Turkish intellectuals have launched an online petition to apologize for the "Great Catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915"; a number of Turkish lawmakers have condemned the initiative.

Although the Party's legitimacy remains bound up with Mao, and forthright public criticism of him is still forbidden, many intellectuals consider him a cynical despot and his rule the greatest catastrophe in Chinese history.