Intellectual impostures: Postmodern philosophers' abuse of science

by Alan D Sokal (Author), Jean Bricmont (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $12.30

  When it was published in France, this book s hocked the philosophes of the Left Bank with its plain-speak ing attack on some of France''s greatest minds '

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  Paperback
  2003

  $19.82

  When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists - Lacan, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Latour, Virilio, Deleuze and Guattari - and systematically expose their abuse of science. This edition contains a new preface analysing the reactions to the book and answering some of the attacks.