Sokal Alan - Fashionable Nonsense Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse Of Science - Hardcover Reptiles Barcode: 9780310126560

Barcode: 9780310126560

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Sokal Alan - Fashionable Nonsense Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse Of Science - Hardcover Reptiles Barcode: 9780310126560Binding: Hardcover Description: 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