intellectualist

From the intellectualist and functionalist perspectives magic is often considered most analogous to science and technology.

The foremost perspectives on magic in anthropology are functionalist, symbolist and intellectualist.

The Enlightenment was neither simply intellectualist, nor was it merely based on normative-emancipatory positions.

Baumgarten is clearly an intellectualist in aesthetics, reducing taste to an intellectual act and ignoring the element of feeling.

The intellectualist bias of professional theorists cannot but make their strenuously philosophical readings of literary texts discontinuous with the subject matter.

At first a sensualist, like Condillac and John Locke, next an intellectualist, he finally became a mystical theosophist.

On the whole, Mitnagdic-Litvish Judaism accepted Kabbalah, but had a distinctive "intellectualist" understanding of it.

The influence of Bergson had led James "to renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be".

He was a friend to the Polish intellectualist - writer Stanisław Lem and politician Władysław Bartoszewski.

As conference Chairman, the Neo-idealist philosopher Givanni Gentile publicly proclaimed the alliance between Culture and Fascism, thereby challenging intellectualist critics who questioned the Fascist régime's cultural respectability.

In fact, an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency, which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume (1738-40) tells it.

It is then argued further that in non-mainstream, critical cinema, a new image-centred mode of signification, based on an alternative 'regime of pleasure', may come increasingly to displace the most pervasive type of critical cinema which is modernist, discursive, and intellectualist.

Says Father John Navone of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome: "A kind of intellectualist bias has grown up: unless you are aware of the very latest academic theory about the Bible, you might as well not read it.