Sentences with phrase «public intellectual whose»

More than a mere historian, Le Goff was a strongly pro-European public intellectual whose historiography helped support the formation of the European Union.

Throughout every academic year the Gund Gallery invites select artists, scholars and public intellectuals whose work closely relates to exhibitions, collections and thematic programs to visit campus for short durations.

Not exact matches

By rebutting some of their public statements and postings we hope that some people whose minds have still not fallen into the intellectual abyss displayed by most theists might be spared the damage to their thinking abilities before they get suck (er) ed too deeply into a routine of closed minded parroting of ancient fairy tales.

This is why it is so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or an advisory board).

In One on One, the minimalist artist and public intellectual Rasheed Araeen — whose work can be seen at this year's Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens as well as the Venice Biennale — reflects on the exhilarating experience of discovering an unknown work by British modernist Anthony Caro in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1985.

Mr Borovy has been at one with the Canadian library community, whose core values include a strong commitment to intellectual freedom, a freedom under continual challenge and frequently unpopular to defend Mr Borovoy's voice has always been there with the Canadian library community's to combat both censorship and episodic public apathy enabling it, and he has referred to Canada's librarians as «the Clark Kents of political action.»