The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca, Lingua Franca Magazine

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

Lingua Franca, Lingua Franca Magazine

271 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. An...

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