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- Title
- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
- Author
- Alan D. Sokal; Jean Bricmont
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312195451
- ISBN 13
- 9780312195458
- Item weight
- 1.14 pounds
The author of a parody of science and literary theory that was published as scholarship argues that many critics misuse scientific information they do not understand to make literary and philosophical points
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About the Author
Alan Sokal is a professor of physics at New York University. He is the author of "Transgressing the Boundaries," the parody that appeared in Social Text, from which Fashionable Nonsense originated, and is coauthor, with Roberto Fernandez and Jurg Frohlich, of Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory.
Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist with the Universite de Louvain in Belgium.
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