Sentences with phrase «classicists understood»

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

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Often called neo-reactionaries but better understood as classicists, a third group of French thinkers refuses both nihilism and Islamism.