I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison.
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.
There was no reason to take an intellectual stand on software programming, or on the protocol and processes of accounting.
During the evenings we spent discussing Yemen's complex current affairs in Sana'a's Change Square, Ibrahim's sober intellectual rigor stood out.
As the above (by no means complete) account of his public recognition reveals, in his own day Bradley's intellectual reputation stood remarkably high: he was widely held to be the greatest English philosopher of his generation, and although the idealists were never a dominant majority, amongst some philosophers the attitude towards him seems to have been one almost of veneration.
After the liberation, he was the best-known collaborationist intellectual to stand trial.
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.
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.
