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In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quant
Beyond the Hoax
Language: en
Pages: 771
Authors: Alan Sokal
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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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 Boun
The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Ophelia Benson
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Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide a hilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering
Higher Superstition
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Paul R. Gross
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-12-03 - Publisher: JHU Press

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The widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science, with a new afterword. With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-
Intellectual Impostures
Language: en
Pages: 491
Authors: Jean Bricmont
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When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked imp