This, then, was Bach's intellectual enterprise, which is why Wolff subtitles his biography "The Learned Musician".
His espousal of the project was at least as much concerned with salesmanship as with high intellectual enterprise.. His words had a familiar ring of the scientific sell.
I assume that's why Mr Krugman has been writing blog posts thinking through the failure of academic economics as an intellectual enterprise.
Given the difficulty of their intellectual enterprise, the creationist geologists often have a story about the time they nearly gave it up.
This view derives from Michel Foucault, the philosopher who trained his eye on the historical relationship between intellectual enterprise and political power.
When colleges, our main centers of intellectual culture, lower standards of academic excellence in order to increase standards of athletic excellence, they implicitly support the popular marginalization of the intellectual enterprise.
Both condemnations and celebrations are partly populist, partly the result of an increased attention to New York's ethnically diverse past, partly a desire to expand the audience, and partly an intellectual enterprise.
What is more important is that his intellectual enterprise, as Smith's careful exposition makes clear, repeatedly argued against the very idea of political certitude that has been embraced by certain neoconservatives.
"What I really loved about the work," she said, "was the way that it merged figuration and abstraction, and even decoration and craft, within the highly intellectual enterprise of formal abstraction".
A theory of international relations is not just an intellectual enterprise; it has practical consequences.
