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Reddit mentions of The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy
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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...
edit: double entry removed + sorting
>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.