Intellectual Impostures

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

ISBN 1 86197 631 3

April 2003

Price £7.99

Paperback, 276 pp.

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Subjects: Literary Criticism, Postmodernism

When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists – Lacan, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Latour, Virilio, Deleuze and Guattari – and systematically expose their abuse of science.

This edition contains a new preface analysing the reactions to the book and answering some of the attacks.