- vagueness. In the 18th century,
Enlightenment philosophers applied the term
obscurantist to any
enemy of
intellectual enlightenment and the
liberal diffusion...
-
advocate of the Jews
being Johann Reuchlin, who was
opposed by the
obscurantists; and this controversy,
which was
carried on for the most part by means...
- film
studies scholar Reynold Humphries dismisses the
franchise as "
obscurantist nonsense whose only 'idea' is that
death is an
agency that has a 'plan'...
-
letter he
wrote in that
campaign was
criticized for
using "medieval" and "
obscurantist" language. A
church source quoted in the
Argentine newspaper La Nación...
-
Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.
Bertrand Russell considered Heidegger an
obscurantist, writing, "Highly
eccentric in its terminology, his
philosophy is extremely...
-
schools and
engaged in
youth work. A
propaganda pamphlet, "The Jesuit: The
Obscurantist without a Homeland" by
Hubert Hermanns,
warned against the Jesuits' "dark...
- by race,
religion or
other social group. No
promotion of sectarian,
obscurantist, anti-scientific and anti-national attitudes.
Relations with foreign...
- book De l'Allemagne (1813)
which he
viewed as reactionary,
Romantic and
obscurantist. He felt de Staël had portra**** a
Germany of "poets and thinkers", dreamy...
-
Ammonius Hermiae writes that Aristotle's
writing style is
deliberately obscurantist so that "good
people may for that
reason stretch their mind even more...
- fifties,
during the
period of the 1948
Zhdanov Decree,
which attacked obscurantist tendencies in the
music of
leading Soviet composers." "Prokofiev's War...
