The main reasons for the style's popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation with ancient Greek culture at the time, as well as a new awareness of the actual nature of Greek art brought about through widely circulated illustrations of notable ancient temples and the Elgin Marbles.
For Peirce, developing a thoroughgoing theory of signs was a central philosophical and intellectual preoccupation.
Burke, however, could not think in terms of an academic historiography, still less one that would be the exclusive intellectual preoccupation of its exponents: neither of these existed in his time.
The Fables occasionally reflect contemporary political issues and intellectual preoccupations.
His interest always gravitated toward the sexual mores and intellectual preoccupations of the present.
Polls such as this are imperfect indicators of the intellectual preoccupations of the age, of course.
I do have these intellectual preoccupations, and I've kept them private.
Suddenly the newly prospering India was part of my life, and given my intellectual preoccupations, I was keen to understand how the country's new wealth was changing the infrastructure of opportunity in low-income communities.
In 1903, Otto Weininger, a young Viennese philosopher much admired by the likes of Freud, published Sex and Character, which posited the belief, current at the time, that "lustful woman" diverted man from intellectual preoccupations.
Speaking in the name of reason, virtue, and liberty and using the Roman Republic or the city-states of Greece as a frame of reference, Revolutionary leaders such as Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Jean-Paul Marat, Maximilien Robespierre, and Louis de Saint-Just infused the intellectual preoccupations of the Enlightenment with a sense of drama and passion.
Readers who are remotely familiar with my intellectual preoccupations through the years know that I like to bang on about how, in the postmodern universe, entertainment and consumption are allowed to masquerade as culture.
