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Intellectual Impostures
E-bok, 2011
129 kr
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When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists - Lacan, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Latour, Virilio, …
Omvänt bistånd - från den fattiga till den rika världen
Av Krister Holm, Justina Inês Cima m. fl.
Pocket, 2008
89 kr
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Begrepp som »bistånd« och »fattigdomsbekämpning« riktar blicken bort från vårt eget samhälle. Problemen placeras i de fattiga länderna, det är där de ska lösas, och den rika världen ska bistå i detta. Samtidigt döljer orden biståndets förutsättning: Den enorma rikedomen hos en liten elit och de …
Chomsky Notebook
Av Julie Franck, Jean Bricmont
Inbunden, 2010
1037 kr
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Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, the revolution it initiated in cognitive science, and a radical encounter with political theory and …
Chomsky Notebook
Av Julie Franck, Jean Bricmont
Häftad, 2010
265 kr
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Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, the revolution it initiated in cognitive science, and a radical encounter with political theory and …
Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Häftad, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
307 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers-above all, the United States-in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more …
Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Inbunden, 2006
1292 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers - above all, the United States. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more …
À l'ombre des lumières
Débat entre un philosophe et un scientifique
Av Jean Bricmont, Regis Debray
E-bok, 2003
155 kr
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Dans leur ouvrage polémique contre la philosophie postmoderne française, Impostures intellectuelles, où ils dénonçaient l’usage métaphorique de notions scientifiques comme autant d’arguments d’autorité, Alan Sokal et Jean Bricmont avaient critiqué, entre beaucoup d’autres, Régis Debray pour son …
Impostures intellectuelles
E-bok, 1997
174 kr
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Au printemps 1996, une revue américaine fort respectée -- Social Text -- publiait un article au titre étrange : " Transgresser les frontières : vers une herméneutique transformative de la gravitation quantique. " Son auteur, Alan Sokal, étayait ses divagations par des citations d''intellectuels …
Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics
Häftad, 2022
664 kr
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Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, …
Making Sense of Statistical Mechanics
E-bok, 2022
897 kr
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Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, …
Quantum Confusions
A History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
Inbunden, 2026
1743 kr
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This book does not simply tell a story about the development of quantum mechanics, but clarifies our ideas about its meaning by discussing the many misunderstandings that one finds in the scientific literature. For instance, Erwin Schrödinger never thought that his cat was both dead and alive; that …
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
Inbunden, 2016
718 kr
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This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in …
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
E-bok, 2016
868 kr
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This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in …
Quantum Sense and Nonsense
Häftad, 2017
459 kr
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Permeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:The issue of determinism. Does quantum mechanics signify the end of a deterministic word-view?The role of the human subject or of the …
Quantum Sense and Nonsense
E-bok, 2017
652 kr
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Permeated by the author''s delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics: The issue of determinism . Does quantum mechanics signify the end of a deterministic word-view? The role of the human subject or of the …
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
Häftad, 2018
634 kr
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This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in …
Quantensinn und Quantenunsinn
Determinismus, Lokalität und offene Fragen der Quantenmechanik
2018
405 kr
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Mit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie. Dabei unterstreicht er auf unterhaltsame Art deren paradoxe Natur und entwirrt die unglaubliche Menge an Fehlvorstellungen, Pseudowissenschaft …
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Determinismus, Lokalität und offene Fragen der Quantenmechanik
2018
423 kr
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Mit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie. Dabei unterstreicht er auf unterhaltsame Art deren paradoxe Natur und entwirrt die unglaubliche Menge an Fehlvorstellungen, Pseudowissenschaft …
De la fumisterie intellectuelle
Av Jean Bricmont, Bertrand Russell
E-bok, 2020
95 kr
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La lecture de cet essai peut nous fournir au moins une sorte de consolation, à une époque où les passions identitaires et religieuses menacent de plonger une nouvelle fois l’humanité dans le désastre. Russell passe au scalpel de son ironie les préjugés religieux, philosophiques, nationalistes et …
Les censeurs contre la République
E-bok, 2014
180 kr
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Contre le climat général de dénonciations, la "République des censeurs" passe en revue, en les critiquant, les arguments justifiant la censure. Aucun critère ne peut être appliqué de façon impartiale (il est facile de donner des exemples de propos « scandaleux » proférés par de grands penseurs et …
