"intellectual unrest" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a feeling of discontentment among intellectuals in response to political and societal issues. For example, "The recent election results have caused a lot of intellectual unrest among the university faculty."
In March 1968, a wave of unrest among students and intellectuals, unrelated to the Arab-Israeli War, swept Poland (the events became known as the March 1968 events).
As a matter of intellectual hygiene, more exposure on the AIDS epidemic, labour unrest, and the persecution of religious groups such as Christians and the Falun Gong should be made as well.
Noting mounting troubles, from Syria's recent humiliating exit from Lebanon, to American sanctions, to anger over Syria's alleged failure to stop jihadis crossing the border into Iraq, to falling oil sales, soaring unemployment and stirring unrest among Kurds, Sunni Islamists and liberal intellectuals, some predicted an early end to Baathist rule.
What was most striking about Newsnight's attempts to cover the recent unrest was the absence of any sign of intellectual curiosity.
Indignation at the current regime kindled further unrest, and in the second half of November students, young intellectuals, and later older people, totaling some half a million, demonstrated in the streets of the capital.
While unrest and desire for reform and change among both intellectuals and workers was beginning to surface throughout the Eastern Bloc, the death of Stalin's ally Bierut in March 1956 in Moscow (the veteran hardliner chief was attending the Soviet party's congress) exacerbated an existing split in the Polish party.
Whether the unrest Ms. Banarjee is stirring in her own party and among the educated middle-class and intellectuals will actually translate into a comeback for the Communist party is unclear.
The Romantic movement was born of radical intellectual and political change, notably the disintegration of the idealism of the Enlightenment in the face of the wars and unrest that convulsed Europe in the quarter-century after the 1789 French Revolution.
