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Print Length: 318 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0312204078
Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (January 14, 2014)
Publication Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
ASIN: B00GVRE638
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It's 20 years too late for me to have been saved from all the malarke I put up with in graduate school, but better late than never. I just wish I'd known about this book when it came out.
A necessary read for anyone trying to understand post-modernism. Using Ockham's Razor as a guide as any scientist should, this book clearly in concise clear wording brings out the contradictions of post-modernism including an analysis of its need to reject the principle of non-contradiction.
Humorous and tragic, illuminating and infuriating. A guide for our “post-truth†times and the masturbation fantasies that neutered the left. Or, why a feminist critique of quantum gravity isn’t worth reading, or writing.
Although this is an important book it is not a very enjoyable one to read for the simple fact that the authors felt compelled to quote at length from some of the most disfigured and meaningless jumbles of words that I have ever seen sewn together in the guise of sentences.A major portion of the book is given over to reproductions of original 'postmodernist' sources that ramble for pages on end, with trifling comments by the authors on how the different scientific concepts have been misinterpreted or misused. However, the long barrage of academic verbiage is such manifest nonsense to begin with that there is little left for the sagacity of Sokal and Bricmont to say.There are only so many ways to call a fraud a fraud, so many ways to point to a syntactic confusion of adjectives and say, 'this is gibberish.'The reason for the extensive quantity of quoted material, the authors explain, is that they do not want to be accused of misrepresenting the sources, or cherry-picking their quotations. This may be an admirable intention but it does not make the situation any less painful for the reader who is forced to slog his way through the sentences.If a reader is not convinced of the absurdity of the postmodern examples within the first two sentences of a quotation, they probably so completely lack the discriminating facility that another twenty pages will not do them any more good.Much more instructive were the sections between the criticisms of the individual postmodern authors, that dealt more broadly with the roles of science and reason in the humanities and politics. Despite what other reviewers have said, there is nothing in these parts which does not seem to me to be thoroughly reasonable and correct.Most incomprehensible is how anyone could have ever taken these postmodernist authors seriously in the first place - how entire segments of the academic world could have so completely taken leave of their senses as to give even one of these imposters an academic post - let alone legions of them spanning several generations.By sheer chance, I recently ran into this comment by Jonathan Swift which seems to have some bearing on the situation:"There are certain common Privileges of a Writer,the Benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt;Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded,that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath." (1704)
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont analyze and critique the use, or rather misuse, of scientific language by the postmodernists. Sokal and Bricmont argue that these postmodernists use scientific concepts and terminology out of context and also target the notion of epistemic relativism (the notion that modern science is no more than a myth or social construction). I liken the postmodernists to Deepak Chopra in their use of such language as pseudo-profundity to support obscure theoretical arguments. Alan Sokal rose to notoriety in the debates around postmodernism a couple decades ago with his famous hoax article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.†As Sokal and Bricmont note, “the article was accepted and published. Worse, it was published in a special issue of Social Text devoted to rebutting the criticisms levelled against postmodernism and social constructivism by several distinguished scientists. For the editors of Social Text, it was hard to imagine a more radical way of shooting themselves in the foot.†In Fashionable Nonsense, Sokal and Bricmont study the texts of a handful of the most prominent postmodernists and social constructivists: Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Bruno Latour, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilles Deleuze. Sokal and Bricmont do a wonderful job at revealing the abuse of science present in postmodernist texts. Postmodernism is not scientific, indeed it is deeply ideological, as Sokal and Bricmont show in the epilogue while focusing on the political angle. In terms of a general critique of postmodernism, this is a classic and well worth reading. I’ll end my review of this work with one last quote from Sokal and Bricmont: “Postmodernism has three principal negative effects: a waste of time in the human sciences, a cultural confusion that favors obscurantism, and a weakening of the political left.†As postmodernism has taken over many areas in the social sciences, critiques such as this are very much necessary.
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