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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aAlan Sokal and others _9194512
245			_aFashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science
260			_aNew York _bPicador _c1998
300			_a300 p. _bPB _c21x14 cm.
365			_aIN-1485 _c₹ _d₹2077.00 _e0% _f17-12-2024
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aScience _9194509
650			_aPhilosophy _9194510
700			_aBRICMONT (Jean) _9194511
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