Alan Sokal
Alan Sokal is Professor of Physics at the University of New York. In 1996 his infamous article 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' parodying post-modernists' use of scientific terminology was published by the American journal Social Text in all seriousness.
Books by Alan Sokal
Intellectual Impostures
Jean Bricmont
When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it pr…