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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Paperback • 1998 • English

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

By Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont

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About the book

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...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
Philosophy and Religion

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9780312204075

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Format

Paperback

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