Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont

320 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in th...

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