The Editors of Lingua Franca
Autor de The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Harvard University
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- 4
- Miembros
- 156
- Popularidad
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- Valoración
- 4.3
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- 3
- ISBNs
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In The Sokal Hoax, the editors of _Lingua Franca_ have brought together in one volume Sokal's original article along with a lot of the things that were written (by both critics and supporters of Sokal) in response. I found this book to be very entertaining. For those who know some set theory, footnote 54 of Sokal's article contains some delicious puns which, by themselves, would have tipped off the editors of _Social Text_ that Sokal was pulling their leg if they had really been competent to referee his paper. Like some postmodernists, I guess, I sometimes think scientists get too big for their britches, but I think the theories many postmodernists have concocted to cut science down to size are many times worse.… (más)