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Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

Paperback • 2010 • English

Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

By Alan D. Sokal

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Famed for his 1996 hoax that parodied the extreme postmodernist criticism of science, Alan Sokal here exposes many other examples of charlatanism, deflating the postmodernists of the left, the fundamentalists of the right, and the muddle-headed of all political and apolitical stripes. Sokal does revisit his infamous hoax--the original article is included in the book, with new explanatory footnotes--to illuminate issues that are with us even more pressingly today. But the book ranges far beyond t...Show more

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9780199561834

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

Format

Paperback

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