- vagueness. In the 18th century,
Enlightenment philosophers applied the term
obscurantist to any
enemy of
intellectual enlightenment and the
liberal diffusion...
- he
wrote in that
campaign was
criticized for
using "mediaeval" and "
obscurantist" language. A
church source quoted in the
Argentine newspaper La Nación...
-
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...
- 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...
- studies).
Echoing many critics,
Dawkins holds that
postmodernism uses
obscurantist language to hide its lack of
meaningful content. As an
example he quotes...
- Tukhachevsky, a
proponent of
armoured blitzkrieg.
Stalin promoted some
obscurantists like
Grigory Kulik who
opposed the
mechanisation of the army and the...
- on
issues relating to
caste and
class exploitation, the
fight against obscurantist beliefs, the
degeneration of the
feudal class, and the break-up of the...
-
imitation of his
style by
other 'Lacanian' commentators" has
resulted in "an
obscurantist antisystematic tradition in
Lacanian literature".
Although Lacan is a...
-
State interchangeably, as many
social theorists do, is
insidious and
obscurantist. This practice, in the name of a "classless" or "libertarian" society...
