During his years of exile, he kept up a correspondence with several important critical intellectuals in Slovenia, especially Ivo Urbančič.
A number of intellectuals critical of Catalan nationalism have pointed out what they describe as an "identity obsession" amongst most Catalan politicians and the media establishment.
Melman was part of a circle of critical intellectuals with epicenters in various networks.
The film explores the paradoxes of power and the delicate relationship between with the critical intellectual.
Finally, in 2001 he angered a lot of critical intellectuals with his request to forget and close the debates on guilt and remembrance.
They are doing well in the U.S. To people who ask me if we are dissidents, I say, we are critical intellectuals.
Being himself a critical intellectual, one would understand the origin of his continuous plea for [the intellectual critics] always hunted down by the authoritarian regimes.
The name of Kantgrad (the city in honour of the great philosopher Immanuel Kant) had been promoted by critical intellectuals and media around the globe.
Along the way we have abandoned the ultra-American goal of "providing for society a layer of critical intellectuals."
In the mid 1950s, Zajc became part of a circle of critical Slovene intellectuals, known as the Critical generation.