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The statements, opinions and data contained in the journal entropy are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editors. Fashionable nonsense is a rewarding and appalling read. Fashionable nonsense postmodern intellectuals abuse of science. The goal of this paper is to give a pedagogical introduction to bells theorem and its implication for our view of the physical world, in particular how it establishes the existence of non local e ects or of actions at. Since 2004, he is a member of the division of sciences of the royal academy of belgium.
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From jacques lacan and julia kristeva to luce irigaray and jean baudrillard. 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. Surprisingly, jean bricmont, the author of humanitarian imperialism. Making sense of quantum mechanics kindle edition by bricmont, jean. In 1996 physicist alan sokal published an essay in social textan influential academic journal of cultural studiestouting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Here, sokal teams up with jean bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of todays most fashionable postmodern thinkers. Using human rights to sell war by jean bricmont add a tag cancel be the first to add a tag for this edition. In their introduction, the authors state the goal of this book is to make a limited but original contribution to the critique of the admittedly nebulous. Intellectual impostures by sokal and bricmont issue 25. Full pdf of jean bricmont s book humanitarian imperialism, using human rights to sell war.
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