Name: The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy
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The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

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The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the AcademyISBN: 9780803279957 Bison Books, September 2000 271 pages, Paperback 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. And the point the essay tried to make was counterintuitive: gravity, Sokal argued, was a fiction that society had agreed upon, and science

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