But across the two intellectual currents there was largely incomprehension, disconnection and caricature rather than engagement.

They essentially formed the core of modernist experimentation, and were part of radical intellectual currents in music and literature, as well.

He argued that postwar conservatism brought together three powerful and partially contradictory intellectual currents that previously had largely been independent of each other: libertarianism, traditionalism, and anticommunism.

This ambitious book overreaches at times, and it can be disjointed, as the author tries to trace a set of loosely defined ideas through many different intellectual currents.