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In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book extends the investigation to show how intellectuals such as Lacan, Kristeva, Irigaray, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari have repeatedly abused scientific concepts and terminology. They have either used these ideas completely out of context without justification or they have thrown scientific jargon around with no regard for its meaning or relevance, obviously to try to impress their readers.
The introduction provides the history of the Sokal Hoax and the response to it. The major part of the book consists of an analysis of various texts by Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Paul Virilio. Brief explanations of the relevant scientific concepts plus references to popular and explanatory texts are provided. Sokal and Bricmont also investigate certain philosophical and scientific confusions behind much of postmodernist thinking, like cognitive relativism, certain misunderstandings concerning chaos theory plus so-called postmodern science.
Appendix A provides the full text of the famous hoax article: Trangressing The Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity. Appendix B consists of comments on the parody and Appendix C serves as an afterword on the hilarious incident. This amusing and illuminating book concludes with a 14-page bibliography and an index. Intellectual Impostures is an amusing read that will have you rolling on the floor at times. I also highly recommend The Illusions Of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton, The Anti Chomsky reader by David Horowitz and Peter Collier, and Intellectual Morons : How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn.
"Fashionable Nonsense," which includes both "Transgressing the Boundaries" and its follow-up article as appendices, is an extension of this message, and the devastating critiques of the use of science and mathematics in the "work" of "postmodernist" theorists is one of the book's major strengths. One cannot come away from this book and fail to wonder how such intellectually fraudulent work could have gained such currency in the social sciences; Sokal and Bricmont's discussion of just this issue is also well reasoned. Another strength of the book is found in the additional critiques brought to bear on the currently popular ideas of Thomas Kuhn, relating to the progress of science, and the work of Karl Popper, relating to "falsifiability" as a fundamental property of scientific theories.
If there are weaknesses in the text, they are mostly of omission. In some cases the authors choose to let the postmodernists' words speak for themselves with relatively little comment other than a well-worded version of name-calling, for example in the section on Deleuze and Guattari. Still, even here the basic message--that if a passage seems impenetrable, it is probably so for a reason, namely the obfuscation of intellectually vacant discourse--is unavoidable.
It is distinctly refreshing to read a critique such as this without the politically right-wing baggage that so often accompanies it (i.e. Dinesh D'Souza et. al.) Sokal and Bricmont are admitted leftists, and their critique is intended to strengthen the political left in academia by encouraging a return to rational thought. Thus, while the postmodernist screeds they critique are arguably of little real importance outside of academia, "Fashionable Nonsense" is of genuine importance. Even if you have never encountered the work dealt with here, this book is worth reading.
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