He spoke learnedly of obscure European thinkers unknown to his colleagues; yet he spoke of them in ways they could thoroughly approve of.
There's now no doubt that this previously obscure Russian thinker, who is said to have torn up one of his own priceless manuscripts for cigarette paper, is one of the supreme literary thinkers of our time.
Catholic libertarians trace their genealogy back to the theologians Augustine and Thomas Aquinas as well as a smattering of more obscure nineteenth century thinkers like the French economist Frédéric Bastiat.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — As radical Islam spreads globally through online forums and chat rooms, a group of obscure Arab religious thinkers may come to exert more influence over the jihadist movement than Osama bin Laden and other well-known leaders of Al Qaeda, a research group at the United States Military Academy has concluded.
"Keywords" consists of short entries on terms relevant to campus life, such as "audience," "school," "teaching," and "text," all of which have specialized meanings for professors who devote years to bringing obscure short stories or thinkers back into the light.
Marx was one of the great infighters of all time, and a lot of his writing was topical and ad hominem — no-holds-barred disputes with thinkers now obscure and intricate interpretations of events largely forgotten.
Instead, it is inspired by one of Kiefer's heroes, Robert Fludd, an obscure and eccentric 17th-century English thinker and writer who believed that every plant on earth, and indeed every human being, had a corresponding star in the heavens.
He has read so much obscure economics, and absorbed so many forgotten thinkers, that he is overflowing with ideas that must be squeezed into his brief moment in the spotlight.
And, lest anyone miss John's otherworldliness, his surname is Monad, a word that philosophers associate with the obscure metaphysics of Leibniz, the 17th-century thinker.
Aristotle recognizes, however, that this grouping obscures very real differences between the two thinkers' views.
