Intellectual Impostures

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).