The Making of The Tourist by Dean MacCannell

“…The author reflects on the historical context and intellectual and institutional foundations for his (1976) study The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, especially its connections to classic social and critical theory, and its fit with post structuralism and deconstruction. …”
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WRITING FOR ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION: WHAT IS FOCUS? by Irina B. Korotkina

“…An academic text is viewed as an intellectual procedure, which enables the writer to construct new knowledge and successfully communicate it to the academic community. …”
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D. A. Ọbasá: The Man and the Significance of his Cultural Activism by Adekemi Agnes Taiwo

“…The essay traces Obasa’s history; right from his birth to the period he became a renowned Yorùbá intellectual. The cultural identity theory which studies a person’s sense of belonging to a particular culture and accepting the traditions, heritage, language, religion, and social structures of such culture is adopted for the analysis in this study. …”
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Retour sur Manuel Núñez de Arenas (1886-1951). Notes pour une biographie by Jean-Louis Guereña

“…We will conclude these pages by emphasizing the main characteristics of his personality as an intellectual engaged in a constant struggle for popular education and culture.…”
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Maîtres et élèves dans les Vies des sophistes de Philostrate : essai d’approche relationnelle by Anthony Andurand

“…Focusing on the relationships between teachers and pupils, this paper aims at investigating the intellectual filiations and traditions which structure the “circle of sophists”, as shaped in the Philostratean model. …”
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Images du corps nikkei à São Paulo by Helena Prado

“…By considering a few common expressions from popular language and by examining recorded discourse, it aims to analyse what is presented as obvious: the body designated as “Japanese” in Brazil, one that is foreign, different and excluded from the body representations at work in the “national myth”.It will therefore be a matter of identifying the phenotypical markers at play, and showing what directly follows from them, namely a series of representations “naturally” associated with the Nikkei ethnicity, having to do with norms of aesthetics and social behaviour, with moral and intellectual values, and with collective and individual practices expected from Japanese Brazilians.…”
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EVALUATION RATINGS OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES by Nadezhda G. Yaruchkina, Vadim G. Tronin

“…It is advisable to consider the amount of intellectual property in the main results of the work of an engineering university in addition to journal publications.…”
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The Postliberal Order: A New Movement Emerging in American Political Thought by Wiktor Mikosza

“…The paper aims at summarizing and outlining postliberal thought, along with its two main elements: Deneen’s political theory of common good conservativism and Vermeuele’s legal theory of common good constitutionalism, asking the question of whether postliberalism, as represented by the authors, is a new political doctrine or rather an emerging intellectual movement. …”
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„Ultimii” critici, între geometrie și finite by Raluca Dună

“…„Geometry and Refinement”, by Mircea Martin follows the fundamental tensions of French criticism, mainly the intellectual versus the sensitive trend, the balance between the quest for the particular and individual element versus the opposite search for the generic form, a system of oppositions that may be resumed into one formula: ‟esprit de finesse” versus „esprit de géometrie”. …”
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School of Middle Eastern languages by A. V. Shtanov

“…School of Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish), as well as a number of languages of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) is based on the intellectual heritage, tracing its history to the Department of Arabic Studies, established in 1871-1872 years when Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. …”
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La Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris by Sébastien Bureau, Guilherme Marinho de Miranda, Lionel Rossini

“…It offers to them a set of centralized services and a privileged living environment but considers itself above all as a melting pot for the meeting of cultures and the spreading of French culture among international intellectual elites. Beyond intentions, we tried, by the meeting of managements and residents, to grasp the current reality of cultural exchanges thanks to the policy of the "mixing" and the dynamic of "the space lived" on residents.…”
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Seminars as a Way of Organizing Teaching by Carmen Niurka Piña Loyola, Aimeé Seife Echevarría, Carmen Margarita Rodríguez Borrell

“…Aspects related to the origin of this type of lesson, its concepts, functions, structure, methodology, types, advantages and some general intellectual and professional skills that can be developed with their use are reflected. …”
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School of English for Political Scientist by I. A. Mazaeva

“…The development of intellectual, communicative and personal qualities of students and the teachers is the main goal of the educational process, achieved by the teaching staff witch the use of innovative competence-oriented teaching techniques, and types of assessment at the different levels of education.…”
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La critique littéraire de Maurice Nadeau dans France-Observateur en 1954 by Élodie Chevreux

“…What idea of literature did Nadeau construct in 1954 in the left-wing intellectual newspaper? What are the characteristics of his criticism and his literary choices? …”
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Réseaux et régulation : Pour un institutionnalisme néo-structural by Emmanuel Lazega

“…The case of the emergence of a new European intellectual property regime, in which patents are used to privatize knowledge, is used to illustrate this combined approach through a network study of the collegial oligarchy that has orchestrated the current emergence of the European Unified Patent Court.…”
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The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem by Anthony K. Webster

“…Mostly, though, this article is a contemplative exercise in the art of failure and in attending to the value of such an intellectual and aesthetic endeavor.…”
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Aspekte der Aneignung in Klaus Manns Gide-Rezeption by Ralph Winter

“…By intertextual participation and transformation (Lachmann), Mann even comes to an intellectual and formal appropriation of these works. …”
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Cultural studies : le paradigme hallien by Marc Lenormand

“…Taken together, these texts constitute a significant attempt, by a key figure in the history of British cultural studies, at giving an account of the intellectual endeavour that took the shape of cultural studies. …”
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Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Human in The Road by Andrew Estes

“…This article sketches a brief history of the idea of anthropophagy in the Western intellectual tradition. Examining the various twists and turns the idea has taken throughout time enables a better understanding of McCarthy’s use of the trope. …”
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Do Our Universities Need Philosophy? by G. A. Antipov

“…Without any allusion to the times when philosophy was an intellectual dominant of university education, there is no way to consider the present stage of philosophy in universities satisfying. …”
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