Intellectual Impostures
May 2011 · Profile Books
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When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. 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. This edition contains a new preface analysing the reactions to the book and answering some of the attacks.
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Alan Sokal in Professor of Physics at New York University. In 1996 his infamous article 'Transgressing the boundaries: Toward a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity', parodying postmodernists' use of scientific language, was published in all seriousness by the American cultural-studies journal Social Text.
Jean Bricmont is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Louvain (Belgium).
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