Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by:
Alan Sokal (author)
Jean Bricmont (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00GVRE638
Publish date: January 14th 2014
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 320
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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