- vagueness. In the 18th century,
Enlightenment philosophers applied the term
obscurantist to any
enemy of
intellectual enlightenment and the
liberal diffusion...
-
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...
- he
wrote in that
campaign was
criticized for
using "mediaeval" and "
obscurantist" language, and was
later admitted by an
episcopal source to be a strategic...
-
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...
- 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...
- in
which the
original Gr****
junta had been
replaced by one
still more
obscurantist,
headed by the
chief of
Military Police,
Dimitrios Ioannidis; though...
- used by all
government schools promote a
mindset that is
bigoted and
obscurantist.
Since there are more
children studying in
these schools than in madr****ahs...
