Reddit reviews The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

You can look at these for an examination of postmodernist authors on a case by case basis:

Higher Superstition

Fashionable Nonsense

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

Here is a Postmodernism paper generator.

There is a book too if you are really interested... and another... and another

More History:

Europe: A History

Europe: European History

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Iran-Iraq War

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide

Postmodernism and academic nonsense:

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

More Politics:

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Human Nature/ Evolution:

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

On Human Nature


Clinical Psychology:

Introduction to Clinical Psychology (8th Edition) I'm not trained in psychology but I was told this one was quite good.

Ok, that's enough...


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>Also, you were making a fallacy by making an appeal to humor instead of logic

In the same way the Sokal hoax was a fallacy? Because it was humourous? The point is not to make a didactic point: but to gently poke fun at the absurd pretensions and obfusticating language of PoMo. As such it did very well indeed.

>and if you actually read about it you'll realize that it isn't as simple as it seemed...

I'm sorry? You seem to be assuming I haven't read it and read about it. Why should you assume that? My copy of The Sokal Hoax is upstairs at the moment, I think, and I haven't read it for a few years but I really can't see what you're driving at.

>if you need good post structuralist readings

I have many. Yet to find a good one...though I do quite enjoy early, briefer Barthes. I still talk about a zero-degree haircut to this day, years after I read Mythologies.

So...in brief...it's very obvious I know this stuff much better than you do. Give it up, it's an absurd waste of time.

I suggest you read this book, a complete collection of the affair from insider info. to journalistic coverage. Lauding accounts, the fact that the paper was in fact refereed (as admitted to by a former editor of the journal), and personal correspondence. You can probably download the PDF for free.