时髦的空话
Fashionable nonsense
Alan D. Sokal、Jean Bricmont · 初版 1998 年
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- 揭开索卡尔事件始末并有力抨击伪学术滥用术语
- 捍卫科学严谨性，反思后现代思潮对理性的扭曲
- 在出版数十年后对辨析知识界浮夸话术依然有效
“1996年，Alan Sokal 在先锋知识分子杂志 Social Text 上发表了一篇论文，戏仿当代学者那看似科学却晦涩难懂的行话。在这一恶作剧引发激烈学术争论之后，Sokal 与 Jean Bricmont 联手，揭露当今最走红的后现代思想家在著作中对科学概念的滥用。从 Jacques Lacan、Julia Kristeva 到 Luce Irigaray 和 Jean Baudrillard，作者详实记录了某些后现代主义者利用科学为其论点与理论背书时所犯下的错误。本书妙趣横生且论证严密，Fashionable……
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……多元文化研究、女性研究等等。多元文化主义本身是件大好事，但绝不是这帮骗子贩卖的那种货色。你想看对这帮伪学者毁灭性的痛批，可以去读读《索卡尔事件》（Fashionable Nonsense，又译《知识的骗局》）。书里讲述了两位物理学家如何胡编乱造了一篇通篇都是扯淡鬼话的论文，居然被当时顶尖的后现代主义期刊之一顺利录用，然后他们当场摊牌……
…multicultural studies, women's studies, etc. Multiculturalism is a wonderful thing, but not the brand that these frauds sell. You can read a pretty devastating critique of these pseudo-scholars in the book Fashionable Nonsense, which describes how two physicists made up a completely bullshit paper, full of utter nonsense, had it accepted for publication in one of the leading postmodernist journals of the time, and confronted…
既然 HN 上跟风推荐相关书很火，我也来提名一本：Alan Sokal 亲笔撰写的《时髦的胡话：后现代知识分子对科学的滥用》（Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science）。读起来极其过瘾，而且即使是 20 年前出版的，放到今天看依然针针见血，这其实挺让人沮丧的……
Since it's trendy to recommend related books on HN, I'd nominate "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science" by none other than Alan Sokal. It's a fascinating read and just as valid today as it was 20 years ago when it was published, which is actually a bit depressing…
……一位物理学家的书评。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair 在我看来，这是学术史上最精彩的大快人心/当头棒喝。编辑补充：看看作者写的这本神作：Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean (1998), Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (1st ed.), New York: Picador USA, ISBN 0-312-19545-1
…review by a physicist.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair IMHO it is the most amazing academic comeuppance in history. Edit: See the author's great book: Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean (1998), Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (1st ed.), New York: Picador USA, ISBN 0-312-19545-1
……从社会建构论的另一端进行批判，我强烈建议你读读 Sokal 和 Bricmont 在《知识的骗局》（Impostures intellectuelles，英文译本好像叫 Fashionable nonsense）里专门写他的那一章。纸质版现在有点难找，图书馆都未必有。但我相信完全可以从某些不太正规的渠道搞到电子版。
…critique from the other end of the social constructionism spectrum, I strongly suggest you read the chapter devoted to him in Sokal and Bricmont's Impostures intellectuelles (I think it was translated as Fashionable nonsense). It's a little hard to find in print, even in libraries. But I'm sure one could source a digital copy from a less reputable source.
分歧并不在于文学理论家和搞科学的人之间 有时候还真就是！（http://www.amazon.com/Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intell...）
The disagreement is not between literary theorists and sciencey types Sometimes it is! (http://www.amazon.com/Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intell...)
要是谁对 Sokal 的了解仅限于当年《Social Text》那次钓鱼恶搞，那你真该去翻翻他的书《时髦的胡话》（Fashionable Nonsense，法文原版书名为 Impostures Intellectuelles）。如果说 Sokal 当年的恶搞只是揭露了《Social Text》（以及类似期刊）的不堪，那这本书的杀伤力则要大得多。他在书里扒光了无数……
If anyone is only familar with Sokal for his Social Text hoax, you owe it to yourself to check out his book Fashionable Nonsense (originally published in French as Impostures Intellectuelles). While Sokal's hoax exposed inadequacies in Social Text (and similar journals), his book is far more damning. In it he exposes numerous…