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9780312195458

Fashionable Nonsense

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312195458

  • ISBN10:

    0312195451

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2014-01-14
  • Publisher: Macmillan Trade

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Summary

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.Now 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.At once provocative and measured, Fashionable Nonsense is a passionate defense of science and sense.

Author Biography

Alan Sokal is a professor of physics at New York University. Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist with the Universite de Louvaine in Belgium.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition ix
1. Introduction
1(17)
2. Jacques Lacan
18(20)
3. Julia Kristeva
38(12)
4. Intermezzo: Epistemic Relativism in the Philosophy of Science
50(56)
5. Luce Irigaray
106(18)
6. Bruno Latour
124(10)
7. Intermezzo: Chaos Theory and "Postmodern Science"
134(13)
8. Jean Baudrillard
147(7)
9. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
154(15)
10. Paul Virilio
169(7)
11. Godel's Theorem and Set Theory: Some Examples of Abuse
176(6)
12. Epilogue
182(30)
A. Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
212(47)
B. Some Comments on the Parody
259(9)
C. Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword
268(13)
Bibliography 281(16)
Index 297

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