The resurrection of female intellectuals from obscurity is a preoccupation of Hustvedt's.
In Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, S. M. Amadae tells the remarkable story of how rational choice theory rose from obscurity to become the intellectual bulwark of capitalist democracy.
Mr. Bloom's purpose in "Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World" is to explain how the Intellectuals progressed from their original obscurity to positions of eminence and authority in American life and letters.
He detested the shallowness and artificial obscurity of European-born intellectual fashions such as post-modernism and structuralism.
His silence with Van Vechten was simply the price that every black artist and intellectual pays: to climb out of obscurity, he must endure the language of whites whose humor and cocktail-party chatter is still drawn from the well of Reconstruction.
It remains amazing that this young Irish vagabond, unknown, uncouth, unlearned, and unreliable, was yet able within a few years to climb from obscurity to mix with aristocrats and the intellectual elite of London.
A speedy choice of cheese at a colossal supermarket display may not be the perfect one, but it does leave more time for enjoying it afterwards.Ms Salecl's exotic intellectual pedigree bears the unmistakable stamp of her native Slovenia, mixing the obscurity of Lacanian psychoanalysis with the glibness of the new left.
Yet Berlin's work remains difficult to assimilate to intellectual movements or projects such as postmodernism or multiculturalism, the excesses and obscurities of which provoked quizzical scepticism in him towards the end of his life.
In its bluntest form, their assertion was that the truest Americans were black Americans... Murray has now reached the age where his intellectual progeny have intellectual progeny... Stanley Crouch has a simple explanation for Murray's relative obscurity: "It's because he spent all that time on the Basie book--there was that very long silence.
"After several months, you would learn, oh, her father was X, Y or Z". The ascent of the princelings belies claims popular in some intellectual circles that China is a meritocracy in which talented people can be plucked from obscurity through a tradition of standardized exams dating back to Confucian times.
