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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Sokal, Alan
Bricmont, Jean

Paperback

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0312204078
ISBN13: 9780312204075
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 29 1999
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy.

Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.

In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere narrations or social constructions.

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