Fashionable Nonsense
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: Impostures Intellectuelles), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published. Critics of Sokal and Bricmont charge that they lack understanding of the writing they were criticizing. Responses from the scientific community were more supportive.
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Fashionable Nonsense
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: Impostures Intellectuelles), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published. Critics of Sokal and Bricmont charge that they lack understanding of the writing they were criticizing. Responses from the scientific community were more supportive.
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El libro Imposturas intelectua ...... presunto prestigio en el tema.
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmode ...... ommunity were more supportive.
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Impostures intellectuelles est ...... augmentée, est sortie en 1999.
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Modne bzdury – książka Alana S ...... odpowiedź na podobne zarzuty.
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Интеллектуальные уловки: крити ...... е терминологию этих дисциплин.
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El libro Imposturas intelectua ...... presunto prestigio en el tema.
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmode ...... ommunity were more supportive.
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Impostures intellectuelles est ...... augmentée, est sortie en 1999.
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Modne bzdury – książka Alana S ...... skiego ukazał się w 2004 roku.
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Интеллектуальные уловки: крити ...... е терминологию этих дисциплин.
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Fashionable Nonsense
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Imposturas intelectuales
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Impostures intellectuelles
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Modne bzdury
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Интеллектуальные уловки: критика современной философии постмодерна
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
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Impostures Intellectuelles
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