Alan Sokal: 2 books
Beyond the Hoax
Science, Philosophy and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that...
Fashionable Nonsense
Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
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...