Sentence examples for intellectual turning point from inspiring English sources

Bell reached an intellectual turning point with the abandonment of a contracted book explaining his theory of a monopoly capitalist state.

From what can be reconstructed from his personal career along with the implications of his subsequent historical thought, it is possible to mark an intellectual turning point in his life after which he began to probe deeper into the nature of the Roman Empire.

This suggests that we are at a critical intellectual turning point in the field.

Like Augustine, he lived during a major turning point in Western intellectual history, when the relationship between philosophy and religion was being freshly examined and recast.

However it arrives, the first definitive evidence of life elsewhere will mark a turning point in our intellectual history, perhaps only rivaled by Copernicus's heliocentric theory or Darwin's theory of evolution.

Ms. Neiman, a Kantian scholar and director of the Einstein Forum, an interdisciplinary research institution in Potsdam, Germany, treats the Lisbon earthquake as a turning point in European intellectual history.

A decisive turning point in his intellectual career occurred with his discovery and pioneering investigations of the Basque language, an idiom whose origin and structure had defied hitherto all attempts at an explanation by historians, philosophers and linguists following conventional methodologies.

Although, considered superficially, Feuerbach's study of Bayle is a continuation of the line of inquiry pursued in his earlier historical monographs, closer observation confirms Rawidowicz's observation that this book marks an important turning point in his intellectual development (Rawidowicz, 1964, 62 62).

But a trip to Moscow intended as a reward for promising young Marxist intellectuals proved instead to be a turning point, exposing for him what he described as "the enormity of material and spiritual desolation caused by the Stalinist system".

The European antitrust case is also a crucial test for intellectual property rights — and indeed, a potential turning point in the relationship between regulators and the tech business.

For Müller, losing the election was "a decisive turning point in his scholarly and intellectual life", according to Chaudhuri.