Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by:
Alan Sokal (author)
Jean Bricmont (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312195458 (0312195451)
Publish date: December 1st 1998
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Literature,
Science,
American,
Criticism,
20th Century,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Cultural Studies,
Social
I've heard so much about this book, and I just can't imagine why I haven't read it!
In 1996, Alan Sokal submitted an article to Social Text entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." If that title means little to you, that's OK because the article was, in fact, nonsense. It was part of an elaborate hoax and parody that Sokal wa...
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