Impostures Intellectuelles
by:
Alan Sokal (author)
Sokal (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9782738105035 (2738105033)
ASIN: 2738105033
Publish date: October 2nd 1997
Publisher: O. Jacob
Pages no: 276
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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