It avoids the intellectualism of Christian theology.
It is, essentially, a rejection of Hellenic intellectualism by the sentimentalism of the North.
Among other things, Ms Jacoby blames a rising tide of anti-intellectualism.
The denunciation of reason and soulless modernism can devolve into crude anti-intellectualism and the glorification of "blood and soil."
EVEN in France, a country that treasures intellectualism, the daily printed word has been dying a slow death.
We hate to burst your bubble, but the ReadWriteWeb newsroom is not the luxuriant, mahogany den of intellectualism that you envision.
Britain's large tabloid presence represents a hangover from the old class system: a wide suspicion of intellectualism and an unhealthy disregard for serious news, informed debate or educated opinion.
It was a manifesto, part of a revolution that put an end to the anti-intellectualism of American finance and transformed financial markets from bull rings into today's quantitative powerhouses.