Intellectual and Political Hygiene: The "Sokal Affair.".

Slack, Jennifer Daryl; Semati, M. Mehdi

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ERIC Number: EJ557957

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Publication Date: 1997

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Intellectual and Political Hygiene: The "Sokal Affair."

Slack, Jennifer Daryl; Semati, M. Mehdi

Critical Studies in Mass Communication, v14 n3 p201-27 Sep 1997

Analyzes coverage of the "Sokal Affair", in which physicist Alan Sokal submitted a fraudulent article and then criticized the journal for publishing it. Examines the four currents that overdetermined the Sokal Affair: antliberalism, anti-intellectualism, debates among the left about what constitutes a legitimate left, and the often-perceived incompatibility of the scientific and humanistic world views. (SR)

Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Humanities, Politics of Education, Scholarly Journals, Scholarship, Sciences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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