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.
In the History Department, no course is devoted to American political, military, diplomatic or intellectual history the only ones available are organized around some aspect of race, class, gender or sexuality.
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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.
It's new because we - it's sort of, this goes to somewhat of intellectual history, but if you look at what happened the last two hundred years with the colonial era, when the Western powers invaded and colonized the Muslim world, what happened then is, and this is a fact, that so many of the Muslims turned their back on Islam, in a way.
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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.
Educated at Harvard both the college and the law school he had volunteered for the army in 1941 and ended the war on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur. (His wartime experience may explain why he, like other old soldiers, was always so reluctant to resort to force.) Moreover, his intellectual interests history and the law both drew him to Europe, and Britain in particular.
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 organization was constructed from rotten intellectual bits and pieces false readings of religion and history cleverly and deviously fitted together to give the appearance of reason.
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.
It is a peculiar phenomenon that the Cold War may be the first war in history whose story is being written by the losers the intellectual elite that embraced moral equivalence if not the Soviet cause, itself and that is clearly an unacceptable situation.
It must be conveyed to future generations....It is a peculiar phenomenon that the Cold War may be the first war in history whose story is being written by the losers -- the intellectual elite that embraced moral equivalence if not the Soviet cause, itself -- and that is clearly an unacceptable situation.
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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