Editing Sokal affair (section)

=== Book by Sokal and Bricmont ===
{{Main|Fashionable Nonsense{{!}}''Fashionable Nonsense''}}
In 1997, Sokal and [[Jean Bricmont]] co-wrote ''[[Impostures intellectuelles]]'' (published in the US as ''Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science'' and in the UK as ''Intellectual Impostures'', 1998).<ref>{{Harvtxt|Sokal|Bricmont|1998a|p=xii}}</ref> The book featured analysis of extracts from established [[intellectual]]s' writings that Sokal and Bricmont claimed misused scientific terminology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html |title=A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies |access-date=March 5, 2008 |last=Sokal |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Sokal |work=[[Lingua Franca (magazine)|Lingua Franca]] |date=May 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904042240/https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html |archive-date=September 4, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> It closed with a critical summary of [[postmodernism]] and criticism of the [[strong programme]] of [[social constructionism]] in the [[sociology of scientific knowledge]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue22/epstei22.htm |title=Postmodernism and the Left |access-date=March 5, 2008 |last=Epstein |first=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Epstein |work=[[New Politics (magazine)|New Politics]]<!-- vol. 6, no. 2 (new series), whole no. 22 --> |date=Winter 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512004646/http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue22/epstei22.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref>

In 2008, Sokal published a followup book, ''[[Beyond the Hoax]]'', which revisited the history of the hoax and discussed its lasting implications.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2008 |title=The Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-book-of-the-week-beyond-the-hoax-science-philosophy-and-culture/401027.article |access-date=June 4, 2020 |website=Times Higher Education |url-access=registration}}</ref>