'intellectual concern' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to something that causes worry, anxiety, or distress on a deeper, more abstract level. For example, "The global economic crisis has caused a great deal of intellectual concern among many people."
After Thompson, "popular culture" would become a settled touchstone of progressive intellectual concern.
It's often what I can only call an intellectual concern – some sort of large issue I've got very interested in.
It is clear that his interest in Nathaniel's uncomfortable intersection with the world is not merely an intellectual concern.
"Did she fall or was she pushed" is maybe a less intellectual concern than what a work of art reveals about the artist, but it serves Pessl better.
Such matters, he suggested, are of more than merely intellectual concern, for they affect performance practice no less surely than the continuing debate over Beethoven's metronome markings does.
The show, which originated at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, is exceptional for the bravura acting of the company, which includes Ian Westerfer, who plays an oafish stage manager whose only intellectual concern seems to be whether Welles slept with Rita Hayworth.
Although these sculptors were sometimes in sympathy with Surrealist objectives, their aesthetic and intellectual concerns prohibited a more consistent attachment.
The revocation seemed to move the papacy further toward intellectual concerns rather than the daily lives of Catholics.
"A public intellectual is someone who engages in intellectual pursuits, airs intellectual concerns in a way the broad, literate public can understand.
Gordon unfolds the two stories in tandem, deftly balancing the gossipy aspects of her subjects' lives with their serious intellectual concerns.
In fact, his great poem enjoys the kind of power peculiar to a classic: successive epochs have been able to find reflected in it their own intellectual concerns.
