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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd Read More..

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Description	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.The book was published in French in 1997, and in English in 1998; the English editions were revised for greater relevance to debates in the English-speaking world. As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticize postmodernism in academia for what they consider misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. According to some reports, the response within the humanities was "polarized."Critics of Sokal and Bricmont charge that they lack understanding of the writing they were criticizing. Responses from the scientific community were more supportive.
Description	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.The book was published in French in 1997, and in English in 1998; the English editions were revised for greater relevance to debates in the English-speaking world. As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticize postmodernism in academia for what they consider misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. According to some reports, the response within the humanities was "polarized."Critics of Sokal and Bricmont charge that they lack understanding of the writing they were criticizing. Responses from the scientific community were more supportive.

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Name	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
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Authors	Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont
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Language	French
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Pages	xiv, 300
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Isbn	0-312-20407-8
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