Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of ScienceIn 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Jacques Lacan | 18 |
Julia Kristeva | 38 |
Intermezzo Epistemic Relativism in the Philosophy of Science | 50 |
Luce Irigaray | 106 |
Bruno Latour | 124 |
Intermezzo Chaos Theory and Postmodern Science | 134 |
Jean Baudrillard | 147 |
Paul Virilio | 169 |
Godels Theorem and Set Theory Some Examples of Abuse | 176 |
Epilogue | 182 |
Transgressing the Boundaries Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity | 212 |
Some Comments on the Parody | 259 |
Transgressing the Boundaries An Afterword | 268 |
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont Limited preview - 1999 |
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont Limited preview - 2014 |
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Alan D. Sokal,Jean Bricmont No preview available - 1998 |