…why does the academic community so easily accommodate views so antithetical to a scientific world view. I believe that this at the heart of the questions raised by the original NYT piece. The book is Higher Superstition by Gross and Levitt. While interesting this book is erudite and seems directed to narrower audience than those mentioned above, expecting a well-read reader. [1] Rawls, A theory of justice. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/067400078...…
See also The Sokal Affair on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Quoting that entry: "Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known…
…rest of the article; the history involved does a pretty good job of explaining what happened and why: "ALAN SOKAL: In the spring of 1994, I saw a reference to the book by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. My first thought was, Oh, no, not another one of those right-wing diatribes that tell how the Marxist deconstructionist professors are taking over the…
……为什么学术界能如此轻易地容纳与科学世界观截然对立的观点。我认为这就是原《纽约时报》文章所提出问题的核心所在。这本书是格罗斯和莱维特合著的《高级迷信》（Higher Superstition）。这本书虽然很有意思，但博大精深，目标受众似乎比上面提到的那些书更小众，期待的是知识面广博的读者。[1] 罗尔斯，《正义论》。http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/067400078...…
…why does the academic community so easily accommodate views so antithetical to a scientific world view. I believe that this at the heart of the questions raised by the original NYT piece. The book is Higher Superstition by Gross and Levitt. While interesting this book is erudite and seems directed to narrower audience than those mentioned above, expecting a well-read reader. [1] Rawls, A theory of justice. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/067400078...…
另见维基百科上的“索卡尔事件”条目：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair 引用该条目：“索卡尔表示，他在读了《高级迷信》（Higher Superstition，1994）后受到了启发去投这篇虚假论文。该书作者保罗·R·格罗斯和诺曼·莱维特在书中声称，某些人文期刊只要文章符合‘正确的左派思想’，并且引用了（或由其撰写）知名……
See also The Sokal Affair on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Quoting that entry: "Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known…
……文章的其余部分；其中涉及的历史很好地解释了发生了什么以及背后的原因：“艾伦·索卡尔：1994年春天，我看到了保罗·格罗斯和诺曼·莱维特的著作《高级迷信：学术左翼及其与科学的争端》的引用。我的第一反应是，天哪，千万别又是那种右翼的夸夸其谈，宣称马克思主义解构主义教授们正在如何接管……
…rest of the article; the history involved does a pretty good job of explaining what happened and why: "ALAN SOKAL: In the spring of 1994, I saw a reference to the book by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. My first thought was, Oh, no, not another one of those right-wing diatribes that tell how the Marxist deconstructionist professors are taking over the…