'intellectual context' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to an academic or intellectual environment, a setting or situation which stimulates the exploration and development of ideas. For example: "We engaged in a stimulating intellectual context, discussing many topics related to the humanities."
Newton's Principia fundamentally altered the intellectual context for the science of astronomy.
To properly appreciate his achievements, he needs to be set in the intellectual context of his time.
This intellectual context is crucial because Beringer's "fossils" represented an important contribution to the debate, just as Piltdown Man appeared to satisfy big questions about human origins.
Biblion uses a metaphorical landscape to allow the user to dive into the photos, documents, multimedia, and scholarly essays that put the information into virtual and intellectual context.
As the ranks of younger artists reliant on cameras and lenses for their work swell by the week, academia and museums have kept pace, offering intellectual context for them.
Research related to a major disease should not unfold in a purely intellectual context, nor should consumer advocacy exist solely in a lobbying context, nor clinical practice exclusively under the shadow of profit-driven pharmaceutical research.
Barbour has marshalled an impressive amount of newly revealed documentation regarding such incidents in the life, and a deal of supporting evidence about the civic and intellectual contexts in which his subject worked.
This short, engaging book provides historical and intellectual contexts for one of the world's most famous drawings, Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man," in which a male figure is inscribed in both a circle and a square.
A distinguished specialist of eighteenth-century literature at Harvard (in the department where I also teach), and a biographer of Rousseau, he is deeply familiar with Tocqueville's literary and intellectual contexts; the book is filled with his translations, many of them new to English, from Tocqueville's letters, notebooks, and marginalia.
Nonetheless, Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine shared important intellectual contexts in their early development.
In particular it considers the development of the discipline in terms of the socio-economic and intellectual contexts of the time.
