01383nam a22002297a 4500 20250122114403.0 250122b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780312204075 AL English 23 501 SOKF Alan Sokal and others 194512 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science New York Picador 1998 300 p. PB 21x14 cm. IN-1485 ₹ ₹2077.00 0% 17-12-2024 In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers. From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, the authors document the errors made by some postmodernists using science to bolster their arguments and theories. Witty and closely reasoned, Fashionable Nonsense dispels the notion that scientific theories are mere "narratives" or social constructions, and explored the abilities and the limits of science to describe the conditions of existence. Science 194509 Philosophy 194510 BRICMONT (Jean) 194511 ddc BK 233683 233683 0 0 ddc 0 0 CHE AL AL 2025-01-21 amazon.in 2077.00 1 501 SOKF 077554 2025-01-23 00:00:00 2025-01-23 2077.00 2025-01-22 BK