He returned to Iaşi in autumn 1862, having just turned 25, and soon after dedicated himself to reanimating the city's intellectual scene.
He covers the French literary and intellectual scene in a 17-page chapter that for whole paragraphs treats about one writer per line.
When it was founded three years ago, Salon was built around essays with attitude, on the cultural and intellectual scene.
His name has been strongly linked to the critical Marxist intellectual scene in the midwar period.
Ever since their first publication, Ayn Rand's works have had a major impact on the intellectual scene.
Somehow it survived the war, until Monday, when a powerful suicide car bomb hit the market, slicing through the heart of the capital's intellectual scene.
I mention all this because something has changed about the nature of friendship on the intellectual scene during the last 30 years.
The café was opened in 1876, and in the late 19th century it became a key meeting place of the Viennese intellectual scene.
The membership of this group was virtually all drawn from the marginalized white intellectual scene.
So, with it, "philosophy of history finally, belatedly, underwent its linguistic turn and became part of the contemporary intellectual scene."