Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>Sokal and Bricmont freely admit
>they don't understand the work of Derrida, Lacan, & Irigaray (the objects
>of attack), but they use their thoeretical work anyway. The postmodernists
>do the same thing with math & physics, and that is why Sokal and Bricmont
>attack them. I guess they never explicitly said they aren't capable of
>hypocrisy, and I have no reason to expect better behaviour from Sokal
>(don't know anything about Bricmont), but still... since they are so keen
>on scientific rigour, one would hope that they would apply some even in
>their polemical work, but I guess not.
>
>frances

Now, now. Even if you don't understand something, you can judge whether or
not they use the terms they borrow from *your* discipline correctly...

Brad DeLong