How long does it take to read Fashionable Nonsense?
Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont
Fashionable Nonsense by Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In 1996, Alan Sokal Published an Essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. On the heels of the fierce academic debate that followed the hoax, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers. From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, the authors document the errors made by some postmodernists using science to bolster their arguments and theories. Witty and closely reasoned, Fashionable Nonsense dispels the notion that scientific theories are mere "narratives" or social constructions, and explores the abilities and the limits of science to describe the conditions of existence. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Science, Philosophy, Kritik, Natuurwetenschappen, Misbruik, Postmoderne
