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Fashionable Nonsense

Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Fashionable Nonsense( )
Author: Sokal, Alan
Bricmont, Jean
ISBN:978-1-4668-6240-1
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Ebook
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Book Description:

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...
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Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects



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