Wonders and giddinesses of the analogy

Wonders and giddinesses of the analogy is a work written by the French philosopher Jacques Bouveresse.

This test continues the critic of the postmodernism and the cognitive relativism, started in the work intellectual Impostures of the physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. In intellectual Impostures , Sokal and Bricmont showed that a big number of thinkers (philosophical, psychoanalysts, certain sociologists) introduced in an abusive way of the concepts (badly included/understood) Mathématiques and Physique S high level. This caused to give a misleading appearance of scientificity to the speeches of these thinkers (Argument of authority).

At the time of the polemic which had followed the publication of the work, Bouveresse had taken the defense of Sokal and Bricmont. Wonders and giddinesses of the analogy prolong the analysis of Sokal and Bricmont, highlighting at many thinkers the " littérarisme" , tendency to misuse the analogy and the " right to the métaphore" who had been evoked by the postmodern thinkers to justify the abusive use of physical concepts and mathematics far away from the covered subjects.

Synopsis

Foreword

Of art to pass for a " scientifique" with is the eyes of the arts persons

the scientific inculture of the arts persons true the person in charge of the disaster?

How the culprits transform themselves into victims and indicters

the advantages of ignorance and the confusion considered as a form of higher comprehension

misfortunes of Gödel or art to adapt a famous theorem to sauce of the philosophers

the argument " You quoque! "

Which is enemy truths of philosophy?

the Sokal business and afterwards: will the lesson be included/understood?

freedom to think without freedom of criticizing?

Epilog

Sources

A. Sokal, J. Bricmont. intellectual Impostures , Odile Jacob, Paris, 1997
J. Bouveresse. Wonders and giddinesses of the analogy: Abuse the humanities in the thought , Reasons To act, 1999

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