<p>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 '</p>

Intellectual Impostures

Business & Money

Alan Sokal

Management & Leadership

Profile Books, Ltd.

<p>When it was published in France, this book shocked the philosophes of the Left Bank with its plain-speaking attack on some of France''s greatest minds'</p>

Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science

Profile Books

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. Contents: Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1 Introduction; 2 Jacques Lacan; 3 Julia Kristeva; 4 Intermezzo: Epistemic relativism in the philosophy of science; 5 Luce Irigaray; 6 Bruno Latour; 7 Intermezzo: Chaos theory and 'postmodern science'; 8 Jean Baudrillard; 9 Gilles Deleuze and FeÌlix Guattari; 10 Paul Virilio; 11 Godel's theorem and set theory: Some examples of abuse; 12 Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

The subject of this book is equilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular the theory of critical phenomena, and quantum field theory. The central theme is the use of random-walk representations as a tool to derive correlation inequalities. The consequences of these inequalities for critical-exponent theory and the triviality question in quantum field theory are expounded in detail. The book contains some previously unpublished results. It addresses both the researcher and the graduate student in modern statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.

Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

J. Rg Fr Hlich Roberto Fernandez,Alan D. Sokal

Springer

En la primavera de 1996 una revista americana de prestigio la Social Text- publicó un artículo bajo el inquietante título de "Transgredir las fronteras: hacia una hermenéutica transformativa de la gravitación cuántica". Su autor, Alan Sokal, reforzaba sus divagaciones con citas de intelectuales, franceses y americanos, céle bres. Posteriormente él mismo reveló que se trataba de una parodia. Su intención era desenmascarar, a través de su sátira, el uso intempestivo de terminología científica y las extrapolaciones abusivas de las ciencias exactas a las humanas. De un modo más general, Sokal había querido denunciar con su artículo el relativismo posmoderno para el cual la objetividad es una mera convención social. Esta parodia desencadenó un intenso debate entre los intelectuales más relevantes de Francia y de otros países. En este libro los autores recogen y comentan textos que ilustran las mistificaciones físico-matemáticas de autores como Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Paul Virilo, Henri Bergson... todos ellos autores que gozan de una notoriedad importante en todo el mundo. Sokal y Bricmont muestran que, tras la imponente jerga y la aparente erudición científica, el rey está desnudo. Alan Sokal es profesor de Física en la Universidad de Nueva York. Jean Bricmont es profesor de Física Teórica en la Universidad de Lovaina.

Imposturas intelectuales (Paidos Transiciones / Transitions) (Spanish Edition)

History

Bricmont, Jean

Europe

Ediciones Paidós

Intellectueel bedrog: postmodernisme, wetenschap en antiwetenschap

Jean Bricmont

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Intellectual Impostures

Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science

Intellectual Impostures

Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

Imposturas intelectuales (Paidos Transiciones / Transitions) (Spanish Edition)

Intellectueel bedrog: postmodernisme, wetenschap en antiwetenschap