A new edition of Intellectual Impostures hits the bookstands this
week. A fresh selling point for this attack on French postmodernism is the
review of reviews with which professors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont begin their
book. Published by Profile, £6.99, ISBN 1861971249.
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