"intellectual confrontation" is correct and can be used in written English.
One example of its usage could be: "The panel discussion offered an opportunity for intellectual confrontation on the topic of foreign policy."
But inside the Century, where a typical evening is spent dissecting literary portrayals of Victorian England and rising sea levels in Antarctica, the subject quickly became grist for a fierce intellectual confrontation.
Trite, perhaps, to say so, but intellectual confrontation seems needed if the global world conjured by oil wealth, tall buildings and gleaming airports is indeed to mesh with tradition and region, here or in Europe.
With X University's teaching culture of critical thinking and intellectual confrontation, I'm looking forward to being with students and teachers with various culture backgrounds and social experiences, enjoying pleasure brought by thoughts collision.
From Hegel to Marx provided an analysis of the origins of Marxist theory through an account of Marx's intellectual confrontation with each of the Young Hegelians who had sought to interpret the relevance of Hegel for developments in European society.
But the challenges being mounted also mean that the particular incarnations of liberalism will change under pressure; conservatism will also have a role, leading to other kinds of intellectual confrontations.
Many suppliers delayed investing and numerous obstacles emerged, including intellectual property battles, confrontations with privacy advocates and vendors failing to figure out ways to cut tag and reader costs as quickly as expected.
The titanic battle between her and Creon is, in fact, one of the most thrilling moral, intellectual, and philosophical confrontations ever dramatized; inevitably, it has been seen as representing any number of cultural conflicts.
He said that for this reason, France was proposing that the companies and countries involved in both buying and selling drugs get together to discuss how to avoid more confrontations over intellectual property rights.
It was a confrontation on an intellectual level with the empire when we smoked dope at the base of the Washington Monument with a couple hundred cops watching, and later when we skirmished with them.
I've picked people who are madly articulate, who have abundant and extraordinary imaginations or intellectual fierceness, who can put the confrontation with mortality into words in a way that most of us can't or won't.
Islam, as Samuel Huntington, a professor at Harvard University, has put it, has bloody borders.It was Mr Huntington who provided the intellectual framework for the fear of a confrontation between Islam and the West.
