It still enjoys its subtle and slippery, intensely personal and probingly intellectual life.

Mr An is one of many people taken aback in recent years by a change in the atmosphere of intellectual life in Indonesia.

French scientific and intellectual life continued.

This is an intellectual life rich in lessons for both custodians of the present day academy and, more broadly, for modern day liberalism.

`Not because he's obsessed or round the twist or anything like that, but because they are at the centre of his intellectual life.