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" The Sokal hoax : "
edited by the editors of Lingua franca.
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BL
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635256
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The Sokal hoax : : the sham that shook the academy /\ edited by the editors of Lingua franca.
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, c2000.
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ix, 271 p. ;; 23 cm.
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0803279957 (alk. paper)
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: 9780803279957 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Transgressing the Boundaries : Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity / Alan Sokal -- Revelation : A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies / Alan Sokal -- Response : Mystery Science Theater / Bruce Robbins, Andrew Ross -- Selected Letters to the Editor -- Scientist Takes Academia for a Ridge with Parody / Linda Seebach -- Is It-Gibberish or Merely Obscure? : Scientist Hoaxes Academic Journal / Mitchell Landsberg -- Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly / Janny Scott -- Hokum for High-Brows / John Yemma -- Professor Sokal's Bad Joke / Stanley Eugene Fish -- When Pretension Reigns Supreme / Scott McConnell -- A Physics Prof. Drops a Bomb on the Faux Left / Ruth Rosen -- Smitten with Gibberish / George F. Will -- Hoax Article Yanks Academics' Legs / John Omicinski -- Pomolotov Cocktail, and selected responses / Katha Pollitt -- Another Dispatch from the Culture : Wars / James Terry -- Scholarly Article a Fine Hoax : Social Scientists Wore No Clothes -- Illogical Dons Swallow Hoaxer's Leap into Quantum Gibberish / Euan Ferguson -- Sokal's Prank / Roberto Campos -- Sokal, a Self-Parodist / Olavo de Carvalho -- Academic Insult in Greenwich Village, and selected responses / Marco d'Eramo -- When Clever Men Think Rubbish, Sound the Alarm Bells / A. N. Wilson -- Sokal Is No Socrates / Denis Duclos -- Is There Science after the Cold War? / Bruno Latour -- Why I Wrote My Parody / Alan Sokal -- My Sokaled Life; Or, Revenge of the Nerds / Ellen Willis -- The Sokal Hoax / Michael Berube, Alan Sokal -- Sokal's Hoax, and selected responses / Steven Weinberg -- What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us, and selected responses / Paul Boghossian -- Was Sokal's Hoax Justified? / Kurt Gottfried -- The "Sokal Affair" Takes Transatlantic Turn / David Dickson -- Friendly Fire : The Hoaxing of Social Text / Peter Osborne -- Alan Sokal's "Transgression" / Stanley Aronowitz -- The Science Wars in India / Meera Nanda -- Postmodernism and the Left / Barbara Epstein -- Cultural Studies and Its Discontents : A Comment on the Sokal Affair / Ken Hirschkop -- Just Doing Your Job : Some Lessons of the Sokal Affair / Bruce Robbins -- Reflections on the Sokal Affair / Andrew Ross -- A Plea for Reason, Evidence, and Logic / Alan Sokal.
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Sokal, Alan D.,1955-
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Fraud in science.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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Humanities.
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Q175.37.S65 2000
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Sokal, Alan D.,1955-
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