- Science, Philosophy, Kritik, Natuurwetenschappen
"In 1996, Alan Sokal Published an Essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. On the heels of the fierce academic debate that followed the hoax, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers.
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Cool, spare, contemporary and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Picador USA, Picador
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466862401
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