Jean Bricmont is professor of Belgian theoretical physics to the catholic Université of Leuwen, in the Unit of theoretical physics and mathematical physics (Department of physics). Its research activity relates to the methods of group of renormalization and the differential equations nonlinear. This activity was worth the following distinctions to him:

• Price J. Deruyts (1996) of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Classifies Sciences;
• quinquennial Price FNRS (Price A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart) (2005).

He is married and has two children.

He is famous to have written with the American Alan Sokal, intellectual Impostures , with the editions Odile Jacob, Paris (1997).

Bricmont is implied in France in the defense of rationality and the scientific step. He is president of the AFIS (French Association for the scientific information).

In April 2001, Bricmont publishes in diplomatic Le Monde an article devoted to with the defense of Noam Chomsky against those which had fustigated it for one supposed support for the negationnist Robert Faurisson.

In 2005 it publishes humane Impérialisme. Human rights, right of interference, right of most extremely? , appeared with the Aden editions.

In 2006, it prefaces the alternate Atlas directed by Frederic Delorca at the Time of Cherries.

It Co-directed with Julie Franck in January 2007 a Book of Herne (collective work) devoted to the linguist Noam Chomsky.

Quotations

Per hour when the superstition, the obscurantism and fanaticism nationalist and religious go to wonder, it is at the very least irresponsible to treat with lightness what, historically, was the only rampart against these madnesses, namely the rational vision of the world. (...) Finally, let us remember that a long ago, it was a country where thinkers and philosophers were inspired by sciences, thought and wrote clearly, sought to include/understand the natural and social world, endeavoured to spread this knowledge among their fellow-citizens, and questioned iniquities of the social order. This time was that of the Lights, and this country was France. (J. Bricmont and Alan Sokal, intellectual Impostures ) What included/understood well the thinkers of the Lights, but which was partly forgotten since then, it is that the scientific approach (by including ordinary knowledge there) makes known only objective to us to which the human being has really access. If the scientific approach gives us a vision partial of reality, it is because we do not have access, from our finished nature, with the ultimate reality of the things. But there is a great difference between saying that science gives us a complete description of reality and to say that it makes known of it only accessible to the human being; confusion between these two proposals carefully is maintained by the believers, which then enables them to tackle “scientism”, identified besides with the first proposal, and to suggest not simply that there exist questions to which science does not have answers, but which there exists a way of bringing to these questions of the reliable answers. Once this distinction is clearly stated, of the whole buildings of metaphysics and theology effondrent. (J. Bricmont, Science and religion: irreducible antagonism )

All those which prefer peace with the power and happiness with glory should thank the people colonized for their civilizing mission: while being released from our yoke, they returned to us, us them Européens, more modest, less racist and more human. Provided that continues and that the Americans end up being forced to follow this voie. (J. Bricmont, Some remarks on violence, the democracy and the hope )

Random links:

Yves Bergougnan | HYT | Vincent Labaume | Jayne Atkinson | Thierry Pomel