Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal
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 the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers. From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, the authors document the errors made by some postmodernists using science to bolster their arguments and theories. Witty and closely reasoned, Fashionable Nonsense dispels the notion that scientific theories are mere narratives or social constructions, and explored the abilities and the limits of science to describe the conditions of existence.
Alan Sokal is a professor of physics at New York University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312195458 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312195451 |
| Title | Fashionable Nonsense |
| Author | Alan Sokal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 1998-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
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