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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Name: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
ISBN: 9781466862401

Af
- Alan Sokal
- Jean Bricmont
Forlag
- Picador

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Sprog: Engelsk
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Kategori: Fakta

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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E-bog: 25. juni 2025