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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of ScienceIn 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

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/29/1999
ISBN: 9780312204075
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.55w x 0.84d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/07/1999 pg. 42
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104
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