Sentence examples for intellectual enquiry from inspiring English sources
In Orientalism, Said argued that much of the Western study of Islamic civilization was political intellectualism meant for European self-affirmation, rather than for objective intellectual enquiry and academic study of Eastern cultures.
The Enlightenment saw it as a subject of intellectual enquiry, and groped towards the notion of different female and male sexualities.
And the experiments of Bruno Munari, Carlo Mollino and other design auteurs, who treated their work as a form of self-expression or intellectual enquiry, have an obvious appeal to young conceptual designers with similar objectives.
As for designers, they have been given greater control over production by digital technology, which has also helped them to pursue their own agendas: Maybe by realizing their political objectives, or by treating design as a medium of expression and intellectual enquiry.
Coincident with the intellectual enquiry of social scientists more broadly, it then refers to a 'material turn' in geography which situates objects in three key areas, namely the consideration of the object as commodity; materials in networks and networks as material manifestations; and the embodiment of things whose performance unsettles any understanding cast in object/subject dualism.
Post-colonial studies, of which Said was an intellectual founder, and a scholarly reference, is a thriving field of intellectual enquiry that seeks to explain the post-colonial world, its peoples, and their discontents.
The affair as a whole – notwithstanding the undoubted integrity, skill and commitment of the individuals at work – seems to me to have been managed in a way that is more about fulfilling the dead-eyed needs of the Research Excellence Framework (the highly contentious new scheme for assessing university research) than with pursuing a genuinely intellectual field of enquiry.
The attributes were clustered into 6 categories: subject specific, general skills and attributes, research and enquiry, personal and intellectual autonomy, communication skills and personal effectiveness.
This can only be conducted effectively in an atmosphere of open enquiry, mutual tolerance and intellectual freedom".
Ours is a city of the mind, and this wonderful building reminds us of our intellectual history – of the spirit of enquiry that was at the heart of Enlightenment Edinburgh and that still means so much in Scotland".
"This is founded on outstanding teaching a spirit of enquiry and willingness to take intellectual risks, just as Hepworth did.
