Mr Collini, professor of English literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, is eager to rebuild their confidence.
Having consulted their intellectual history, Mr Willetts and his friends now want to explain to people that Toryism was never supposed to mean anything like that.
And it is because of all of these forces, you know, whether they're intellectual history and sort of anachronisms or whether it's the mainstream media and political correctness run amok or academia.
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It is an intellectual history, too, paying as much attention to thinkers such as John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan, whose arguments shaped the decisions of presidents, as to the doings of the presidents themselves.
In them, Hayek discusses the intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, his scholarship, his own life and practices, economic theory, legal institutions and virtually everything else he wrote about over the course of a long and distinguished career.
He wants to make military history respectable by enfolding it into intellectual and cultural history.
His enjoyable and informative canter through three millennia of intellectual and religious history highlights the many ways, ingenious, beautiful, wrongheaded or mad, in which humans have tried to define paradise, seek it or, latterly, create it.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
Mr Hypponen said that Sony had become a preferred target of hackers because of the company's long history of vigorously defending its intellectual property.
David Macey's life of Fanon provides, as background, an excellent guide to the history of French decolonisation and the intellectual debates of post-war France.
Of course, this is also a bit of a deal with the devil -- Intellectual Ventures might be the most infamous patent troll in history, and HTC and Samsung have essentially decided the risks and cost of doing business with IV are more favorable than the risks and cost of going to court.
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The result is that historians in most Arab countries are more like the court chroniclers of long-dead dynasties, and the hollow or distorted history they write and teach reflects the difference between intellectual and government employee.
Throughout their history, the Jesuits have enjoyed a reputation for their intellectual acuity and have played a leading role in Catholic education.
MDGs' chief intellectual sponsor, thinks the 0.7% target now has more than history to recommend it.
That is appropriate in a history, but it would have been interesting to know what Mr Rosen thinks of the way intellectual-capital laws are being challenged at the moment.
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.
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