intellectual circles
Where thinkers gather
Intellectual circles are communities of thinkers, scholars, and educated people who share ideas and influence one another.
The phrase usually implies elite or rarefied company: The book caused a stir in intellectual circles.
Someone moving in intellectual circles keeps company with academics, writers, and other cultivated minds.
- salonGrooming establishment or gathering
- academiaHigher education community
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
- cognoscentiKnowledgeable insiders of a field
- BloomsburyCentral London district
scholarship · armchair philosopher · symposium · meeting of minds · metaphysics · existentialism · mandarins · old boys club · dialectics · intelligentsia · coterie · chattering classes · Left Bank · epistemology · innovation · belles-lettres · clerisy · avant-garde
- societiescivilization, secret societies, nation, literary societies, tribal society
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- academiesacademies, military academies, art academy, naval academies, ballet academy
- Paris literatiwriters, poets, authors, novelists, essayists
- social spheressubcultures, online communities, countercultures
intellectual circlesthe masses
Common populace collectively
common people · ordinary folk · everyman · rank and file · the street
intellectual circlespopular culture
Mainstream societal trends
mass culture · pop culture · tabloid culture · celebrity culture · populist movements