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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan Sokal, Jean BricmontPublish date:1999-10-29Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312204075ISBN-10:312204078UPC:9780312204075Book Category:Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Surveys, CriticismBook Topic:ModernSize:8.28 x 5.55 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCT87YBSVE

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312204075ISBN-10:312204078UPC:9780312204075Book Category:Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Surveys, CriticismBook Topic:ModernSize:8.28 x 5.55 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCT87YBSVE

Alan Sokal is a professor of physics at New York University.

Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist with the Université de Louvaine in Belgium.
Publisher: Picador USA

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