Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Autor Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmonten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1999
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 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0312204078
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 141 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Picador USA Pbk.
Editura: Picador USA
Notă biografică
Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist with the Université de Louvaine in Belgium.