Intellectual Impostures
by:
Alan Sokal (author)
Jean Bricmont (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781861976314 (1861976313)
Publish date: April 3rd 2003
Publisher: Economist Books
Pages no: 304
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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