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When physicist Alan Sokal revealed that his 1996 article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," published in __Social Text__, was a hoax, the ensuing scandal made the front page of the __New York Times__ and caused an uproar among the post-modernists he had so hilariously--and convincingly--parodied. Now, in __Beyond the Hoax__, Sokal revisits this remarkable chapter in our intellectual history to illuminate issues that are with us even more pressingly today than they were a decade ago. Sokal's main argument, then and now, is for the centrality of evidence in all matters of public debate. The original article, (included in the book, with new explanatory footnotes), exposed the faulty thinking and outright nonsense of the postmodernist critique of science, which asserts that facts, truth, evidence, even reality itself are all merely social constructs. Today, right wing politicians and industry executives are happily manipulating these basic tenents of postmodernism to obscure the scientific consensus on global warming, biological evolution, second-hand smoke, and a host of other issues. Indeed, Sokal shows that academic leftists hav

Who reads Beyond the Hoax : Science, Philosophy, and Culture?

Author

Sokal, Alan

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199561834

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Social Science, Religion, Science

Rating

3.87 / 5 (123 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13