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	Amazon.ca: Impostures intellectuelles: Books: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In general, Sokal and Bricmont are to be congratulated for having the courage to expose this new ideological system which permeates almost all of the academic humanities and social sciences.
		Sokal and Bricmont are rightly disgusted with the pompous pretensions of certain grand theorists who freely invoke scientific concepts they know nothing about in order to appear brilliant and authoritative.
		Sokal and Bricmont know that the grotesque misunderstandings (in selected passages) of their target authors do not imply anything about the remaining body of work -- except that an intelligent reader should be suspicious of anyone who can present such howlers as learned analysis.
	www.amazon.ca /Impostures-intellectuelles-Alan-Sokal/dp/2253942766 (1252 words)

	Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
		Sokal and Bricmont's systematic demolition is still totally convincing, at least to someone like me with a background in physics and mathematics.
		Sokal and Bricmont disclaim either the desire or the capability to evaluate the merits of these thinkers' work more generally, but they at least hint that a broader critique follows from their criticisms, and the debates over Intellectual Impostures seem to have revolved around this.
		Sokal and Bricmont sketch briefly the ideas of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Latour, and the "strong programme" in sociology, delivering a broadside against the extremes of epistemic relativism.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Intellectual_Impostures.html (928 words)

	Jean Bricmont - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Jean Bricmont es un físico teórico belga y profesor de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina.
		Entre el público no académico es conocido sobre todo por ser co-autor de Imposturas intelectuales, escrito en colaboración con el también físico Alan Sokal, una obra que se ocupa de rebatir el relativismo epistémico y de denunciar los abusos que algunos filósofos posmodernos realizan de la ciencia.
		Bricmont se ha seguido ocupando de defender la racionalidad científica como presidente de AFIS (Asociación Francesa para la Información Científica).
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Bricmont (240 words)

	Questioning the New Imperial World Order
		Jean Bricmont (°1953?) is professor theoretische fysica aan de UCL.
		Bricmont vertelde hoe het allemaal twee jaar voordien begonnen was als een grap, toen Sokal in een gerenommeerd Amerikaans academisch tijdschrift een pseudo-artikel gepubliceerd kreeg.
		BRICMONT: Dat is een onderwerp waarvan ik te weinig afweet om sterke verklaringen af te leggen.
	www.brusselstribunal.org /bios/Bricmont.htm (16447 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense (Intellectual Impostures) - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		More plausible is the argument that Sokal and Bricmont only show a few selective examples, that these may or may not be representative, and that they often only figure in a small part of the cited authors' works (i.e.
		As Sokal and Bricmont point out, even if the science the so-called thinkers cite were accurate most of the time it still has absolutely nothing to do with what they are actually trying (pretending ?) to say.
		Sokal and Bricmont address the two-cultures debate, and the fact that science is so foreign to so many (allowing it to be abused all the easier).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sokala/nonsense.htm (1850 words)

	Science studies - what's wrong? (December 1997) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		Jean Bricmont criticizes certain aspects of their work and warns that they could be undermining the rational, objective view of the world
		And we do not want to let it be forgotten that the discovery of objective, culture-independent truths about the world has had powerful consequences as one of the sources of the enlightenment, and is one of the best remedies against the permanent short-sightedness of our cultural prejudices.
		Jean Bricmont is a professor of theoretical physics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
	www.physicsweb.org /article/world/10/12/2 (2148 words)

	The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Authors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont take up their lance and shield and go into battle against the many absurdities that are to be found among the works of a number of the most prominent of the French post-modernists.
		Sokal and Bricmont devote chapter after chapter to the most respected figures of French contemporary thought, many of whom would describe themselves as left-oriented in terms of their politics.
		Although Sokal and Bricmont belittle the role of politics in the development of postmodernism, a glimpse at Lyotard's biography reveals that the evolution of his theories is intimately bound up with his own experiences of left-wing post-war politics in France.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jul2000/post-j01.shtml (3058 words)

	naturalSCIENCE Book Review by Kevin Mulligan
		In the case of Lacan, Sokal and Bricmont conclude that the genre in question is that of a "secular mysticism" designed to evoke a religious response and, of course, reverent exegesis.
		Musil reflected at length on the relations between philosophy as a theoretical enterprise and as a nontheoretical enterprise and often argued that, although the latter is as necessary as the former, it should not fall theoretically short of the former.
		Sokal and Bricmont are, by and large, content to accuse most of their Parisian targets of impostures and deliberate obscurantism.
	naturalscience.com /ns/books/book04.html (2197 words)

	Amazon.de: Intellectual Impostures: English Books: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Intellectual Imposteurs, 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.
		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, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
	www.amazon.de /Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861971249 (895 words)

	Cannon-fodder for the science wars
		In this book, the two physicists train their sights on a number of eminent continental thinkers, whom they accuse of transporting the language of mathematics and physics into psychology, philosophy and the social sciences without having the least idea of what they are talking about.
		By presenting their ideas in pseudo-scientific terms, Sokal and Bricmont tell us, authors like Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan are attempting to create an aura of authority and bolster their prestige.
		There is no doubt that the language of some of the authors discussed by Sokal and Bricmont raises disturbing questions about the use of unnecessary jargon and the naï&ve appeal to the authority of science by influential intellectuals and educators.
	www.physics.nyu.edu /faculty/sokal/krige.html (905 words)

	The Village Voice: VLS: Blinded By Science
		Fashionable Nonsense is Sokal and Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont's attempt to seize the moment and extinguish the half-life of postmodern thought.
		Indeed the great irony of the book is that Sokal and Bricmont come up with instances of alleged science-abuse that show poststructuralist theorists trying their best to take old-fashioned science straight, not revise or postmodernize it.
		Sokal and Bricmont make a big fuss about their leftist politics, and though I don't doubt their claim to be driven solely by a passion for rigorous thought, it's not difficult to spy the political stakes of this intellectual investment.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/159/lott.shtml (1195 words)

	The End of the “End of History” By JEAN BRICMONT
		Serbia, on its knees, had just sold Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for a fistful of dollars (some of which, it was learned later, went to pay debts accumulated since the time of Tito).
		That is why a political — and not terrorist — struggle against the cultural, economic and especially military domination of a tiny minority of the human race over the vast majority is more necessary than ever.
		Jean Bricmont sat down and wrote this essay a few days after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
	www.williambowles.info /guests/2006/0906/end_of_history.html (1337 words)

	Review of "Fashionable Nonsense" by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To complement "Transgressing the Boundaries", Sokal and Bricmont compiled many of the most flagrant cases of scientific abuse into this volume, accompanied by clear explanations of what is wrong with the examples considered and how they are abusive.
		The postmodern luminaries Sokal and Bricmont consider are Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Paul Virilio.
		For instance, they are able to emphasize (repeatedly) that their purpose isn't to challenge postmodern philosophy as such, only "to denounce intellectual posturing and dishonesty" (16) as related to scientific concepts.
	daschaich.homelinux.net /writings/reviews.php?id=0312204078 (492 words)

	0312204078 - Fashionable Nonsense by Jean Bricmont; Alan D. Sokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
	www.biblio.com /isbnsearch.php?isbn=0312204078 (263 words)

	Salon Ivory Tower \| Idiot Savants?
		Latour, however, didn't let Sokal and Bricmont's diagnosis of his work as "fatally flawed" interfere with his politesse: Sokal and Bricmont's burgundy toast in London was courtesy of Latour, who presented a bottle of his family's vintage when he debated Sokal there.
		In six more chapters of quilted text, Sokal and Bricmont similarly criticize six other renowned scholars for their fatuous scientific jargon, arguing again and again that "if the texts seem incomprehensible, it is for the excellent reason that they mean precisely nothing." Kristeva confuses set and interval.
		The revelation sounds shocking, Sokal and Bricmont aver, but to the extent that it indicates that modern science subtracts from what we rationally understand, or changes the meaning of the word "knowledge," it is also false.
	www.salon.com /it/feature/1998/11/cov_02feature.html (1138 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		In 1996 his infamous article 'Transgressing the Boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity' which parodied postmodernists' use of scientific language, was published in all seriousness by the American cultural journal Social Text, becoming one of the greatest academic hoaxes of all time.
		Jean Bricmont is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Louvin in Belgium.
	www.allenandunwin.com /shopping/product.asp?ISBN=9781861976314 (208 words)

	Amazon.com: Intellectual Impostures: Books: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It shows blatantly that structuralism and other postmodernisms are not more that conceptual deliriums (the words of Jean Fourastie, who criticized vehemently the hype pseudo-intellectuals).
		Sokal and Bricmont to understand not only the texts they criticize, but the distinction between science and philosophy itself.
		Secondly, Sokal and Bricmont (quite deliberately) refuse to engage on certain topics, in particular on cultural or aesthetic relativism, which they say (without providing a reason) "raise very different issues".
	www.amazon.com /Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313 (4280 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Fashionable Nonsense, by Alan D. Sokal, Paperback, 1st Picador Edition
		Here, he and Bricmont continue where the hoax left off, waging a war of wits with thinkers who, they say, adopt science as a metaphor for their own more literary purposes.
		Challenging the assumption in epistemic relativism that scientific theories and external reality are merely social constructs, the authors clearly show that postmodernists have deliberately misrepresented topology, chaos theory, quantum and fluid mechanics, and relativity physics in their absurd replacement of empirical knowledge with subjective obfuscation.
		Sokal and Bricmont show how easily such truisms and recede from view, and how harmful the consequences can be for intellectual life and human affairs.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0312204078 (954 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Intellectual Impostures: Books: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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, Amazon.com
		Sokal and Bricmont, two professors of physics, show that fashionable French intellectuals in the fields of social and cultural studies - Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Luce Irigaray - habitually misuse scientific concepts and terms.
		Sokal and Bricmont uphold the scientific approach, that knowledge is based on respect for the clarity and logical coherence of theories and on the confrontation of theories with empirical evidence.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861971249 (751 words)

	[Axis For Peace] Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jean Bricmont is a professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium).
		As a polemist he published a pamphlet against intellectual scams; as a citizen he hosted an international tribunal for the Iraq war.
		«In Defence of International Law», by Jean Bricmont.
	www.axisforpeace.net /article202.html (45 words)

	Postmodernist critics hit back (February 1999) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		The point is that Sokal and Bricmont believe there is more to life than power politics, that objective truths do exist, and that it is out of that conviction that they have chosen to write politically.
		Sokal's hoax, in which he hoodwinked the American journal Social Text into publishing a deliberately meaningless paper that parodied the thinking of some academics in cultural studies, would not have been possible had not the relativists betrayed the principles of the academy, and his vilification is simply the response met by all whistle-blowers.
		But I want to insist that the root of the problem is that many of those authors fell prey to the same kind of blind admiration for scientific discourse (and the associated aura of authority) as did the editors of Social Text.
	physicsweb.org /articles/world/12/2/3 (905 words)

	Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
		In 1996, Alan Sokel decided to test the decline in intellectual standards in the humanities by trying to get the article Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity published in a leading cultural studies journal, i.e.
		In Intellectual Imposteurs, the authors 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 they are babbling.
	www.321books.co.uk /reviews/philosophy/intellectual-impostures.htm (332 words)

	Sokal & Bricmont or Lenin?
		This avenue of approach assured him a perfect position to launch a frontal attack on the whole scientific discipline of Cultural Studies.
		He joined forces with Belgian Physicist Jean Bricmont, and together they wrote the book Fashionable Nonsense, which, according to The Guardian, have shown that “modern French Philosophy is a load of old tosh”.
		Little Sokal and Bricmont knew that the philosophical views, which they expressed in that book, were identical to those of...
	reverent.org /sokalenin.html (220 words)

	:::Sunday:::: jean bricmont- THE END OF "END OF HISTORY" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		jean bricmont- THE END OF "END OF HISTORY"
		That is why a political—and not terrorist—struggle against the cultural, economic and especially military domination of a tiny minority of the human race over the vast majority is more necessary than ever.
	sundaymag.ca /index.php?id=401 (1376 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		We assure the reader that if the passage seems incomprehensible in English, it is because the original French is likewise.
		(C) 1998 Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont All rights reserved.
	human-nature.com /reason/books/sokal-bricmont.html (4432 words)

	Defense of a Modest Scientific Realism (ResearchIndex)
		And we want to defend a modest realism: one which insists that the goal of science is to find out how things really are and which asserts we are making progress in that direction, but which recognizes...
		Reply to Turnbull, Krips, Dusek and Fuller for Metascience - Bricmont, Sokal (2000)
		On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility Using..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /bricmont01defense.html (239 words)

	[Vredeslijst] Fw: HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM, interview with Jean Bricmont
		HTML MessageHUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM Interview with Jean Bricmont By Joaquim Da Fonseca and Michel Collon In his new book, Humanitarian Imperialism, Jean Bricmont denounces the us= e of the human rights pretext to justify attacks against countries in the South.
		J.B. The economists Jean Dr=E8ze and Amartya Sen estimate that, departing= from a similar base, China and India have followed different development paths and that the difference between the social systems of these two countries results in about 3.9 million extra deaths in India every year.
		In Latin America 285,000 lives would be saved each year if Cuban health and food policies were applied.
	www.ddh.nl /pipermail/vredeslijst/2006/001751.html (2083 words)

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