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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

By Jean Bricmont , Alan Sokal

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
1999
ISBN
0312204078, 9780312204075
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10733956 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
320\313
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-12-24 16:46:07

Description

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.

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