Wojtek Sent from my Droid On Jan 29, 2013 2:43 PM, "martin schiller" <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> > To go back to the subject, the term "anti-intellectual" is a part of
> > the jargon of certain academic and literary circles that identifies
> > and assigns a value to those they perceive as their enemies. It is
> > rather obvious that those 'enemies' would not use the reverse of that
> > jargon word but rather come with their own, e.g. egg-head, book worm,
> > nerd and so on.
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> Interesting that the wiki article that CC referred to in his original
> Query seems to disagree, suggesting that 'intellectualism' has a negative
> social connotation.
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> "Intellectualism denotes the use, development, and exercise of the
> intellect; the practice of being an intellectual; and the Life of the Mind.
> In the field of philosophy, “intellectualism” occasionally is synonymous
> with “rationalism”, that is, knowledge mostly derived from reason and
> ratiocination. Socially, “intellectualism” negatively connotes:
> single-mindedness of purpose (“too much attention to thinking”) and
> emotional coldness (“the absence of affection and feeling”)."
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