Beckett's writing emerged from the intellectual ferment that gave rise to existentialism and absurdism.

The fifth century before Christ was, in Greece, a time of intense intellectual ferment.

This intellectual ferment was the most striking change of all.

He was born in Scotland in 1711 and spent most of his life in eighteenth-century Edinburgh, a prosperous city full of intellectual ferment.

In the new intellectual ferment there appeared the great artists, great thinkers and inventors, and great navigators who led the race to fresh heights.

The intellectual ferment which has had its source in the war will remain at work to widen the mental outlook and deepen the social consciousness.