Description
In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Info
ISBN: 9780312204075
Published Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Page Count: 300
Size: 8.31" l x 5.52" w x 0.88" h
Category
Science
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects