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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Postmodernism is a broad notion that questions the idea of objective truth.
Chapter 3: The Sokal hoax served as parody and rebuke of postmodernism.
Chapter 4: Postmodernists often misuse science, both deliberately and inadvertently.
Chapter 5: Postmodernism’s trendy status has blocked sober evaluations.
Chapter 6: Postmodernism is harmful to critical thought, progressivism, and the social sciences.
Description
In Fashionable Nonsense (1998), we dive into some of the problematic aspects of postmodernism, a fashionable intellectual trend in universities worldwide. Learn how inaccessible, complex language does not always translate into profound ideas, and discover how the popularity of postmodern nonsense can actually harm society.
Who Should Listen
- Readers who want to learn more about the Sokal hoax
- Scholars and critics of relativism and its implicit dangers
- Students critical of postmodernism