by Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782738105035
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«Impostures intellectuelles» is the philosophical essay by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, published by Odile Jacob in paperback (276 pages, in French).
Starting from the parody Sokal published in Social Text in 1996, this essay denounces the abusive use of scientific terminology by intellectuals such as Lacan, Kristeva, Latour, Baudrillard or Deleuze, and shows how physical and mathematical jargon gives an appearance of depth to question the relativism that denies objectivity.
Published in Paris in 1997. Includes bibliographic references on pages 243-252 and 261-270, plus an index.
Recommended for readers of philosophy of science and for those who follow debates on postmodern relativism.
