intellectual isolation

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Mr. Kerman, the author of a number of admired books and essays, disliked what he saw as the intellectual isolation of musicology and encouraged a more multidisciplinary approach.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2014

It gives you a habit of intellectual isolation that is well, useful, bracing, that gives you strength and originality.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2013

A biography on the website said Kinkade rejected "the intellectual isolation of the artist" and instead, made "each of his works an intimate statement that resonates in the personal lives of his viewers."

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2012

A biography on the website said Kinkade rejected “the intellectual isolation of the artist” and instead, made “each of his works an intimate statement that resonates in the personal lives of his viewers.”

From Time • Apr. 7, 2012

Here he was, a man with an insatiable appetite for learning, forced for most of his adult life to live in intellectual isolation.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell