This passionate, manicured, uncompromising theorist is one of Reta Winters's intellectual touchstones.
Should we expect our presidential candidates to be au courant with the latest intellectual touchstones?
His intellectual touchstones are William James and C. S. Pierce, yet his literary heroes are fantastic irrationalists like G. K. Chesterton and Lord Dunsany..
This 20th-anniversary revival, directed by John Rando, reintroduces New Yorkers to Mr. Ives's mind-bending riffs on cultural and intellectual touchstones like Einstein, Trotsky, Philip Glass and those immortal monkeys with typewriters.
The books that Mr. Gore has cited as his intellectual touchstones -- Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "The Phenomenology of Perception," the work of Edmund Husserl -- adorned every bookshelf on campus, along with Emile Durkheim's "Suicide," David Reisman's "The Lonely Crowd," and Erik Erikson's "Childhood and Society".
This philosophy shares some of its intellectual touchstones with the theology of liberation in particular, indebtedness to dependency theory, as well as Catholic and Marxist ideas.
As an editor, Karl's attention could help make some young writer's career – he certainly helped to make mine – and he showed you right at the start that intellectual integrity was a touchstone he would kill to protect.
The Commission believes that there should be more debate and discussion about the kinds of speech that are valuable contributions to the life of an intellectual community, where the touchstone is not the ideology of invited speakers, but their willingness to engage with other members of the community in thoughtful, reasoned debate.
The difference between the way Americans regard athletes versus "intellectuals" is a good touchstone for how we see ourselves.
