The historian Anne Applebaum — Pulitzer Prize winner; speaker of English, French, Russian and Polish; glamorous globe-trotting intellectual — stood at her stove in northwest Poland, explaining the virtues of her adopted country's cuisine, and in particular how to prepare an excellent venison stew.
There was no reason to take an intellectual stand on software programming, or on the protocol and processes of accounting.
Now those fringes have been vindicated, and all the statesmen and intellectuals stand exposed.
Gulag!" The conformist loves the transgressor, the bourgeois loves the punk, the careful man the adventurer; while the Parisian intellectual (see Sartre and "Saint Genet") typically loves the intransigent despiser of all that Parisian intellectuals stand for.
In the realm of intellects, Dietrich tells us, we discover a fourfold order in which intellectual reality stands: at the top of this order is found what Dietrich calls intellects existing through their essence, followed by intelligent spiritual substances that are called angels, and then species and finally the individual realities included in species that are known to mind.
The interruption is instructive on two counts: first, it dramatizes a difference in comportment between the would-be revolutionary who acts, and the intellectual who stands by to observe, transforming moments of action to points of reflection; second, the heckler takes issue with the potential effects of Lacan's ideas rather than with their internal consistency.
After the liberation, he was the best-known collaborationist intellectual to stand trial.
During the evenings we spent discussing Yemen's complex current affairs in Sana'a's Change Square, Ibrahim's sober intellectual rigor stood out.
It was all very radical chic, though not all of the urban guerrilla movement's heroes, political or intellectual, would stand up to robust scrutiny now.
On the spectrum of Chinese intellectuals, Lin stands squarely in the center: over the years, he has supported greater political openness in the abstract, but in practice he has argued for a slow process of reform, cautioning his Chinese peers against seeing Western constitutional democracy as the route to economic success.
