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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
136 / 2002-08-28 - SOCIAL TEXT, Editorial Office, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture,
Rutgers State University. New Brunswick, NJ.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 100)
Extract:
“We are aware of your dispute with certain representatives of the sciences (Alan Sokal). We know the German
edition of the book
A. Sokal, J. Bricmont: Fashionable nonsense. 1998
under the title „Eleganter Unsinn“, München: Beck 1999. In the German edition there is a chapter (no 12)
which was part of the French edition, but not in the original English edition, and therefore has been translated from
the French. This is a very interesting fact because this chapter is dedicated to Henri Bergson, who was one of the
best and sharpest critics of the relativity theory since 1922 (Durée et simultanéité). In our German edition this
chapter fills the pages 206-228: these are 25 pages exclusively about the criticism against the special relativity
theory, and are a condemnation of any criticism as stupid and outdated. The addition of this Bergson chapter is
interesting because Bergson was no post-modernist and no structuralist and no contemporary of the criticized
sociologists.”
137 / 2002-09-18 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Augsburg.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 106)
138 / 2002-09-18 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Bayreuth.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 107)
139 / 2002-09-18 - INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN, UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section.
Bremen. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 108)
140 / 2002-09-18 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK DER BRANDENBURGISCHEN TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT,
Acquisition Section. Cottbus. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 109)
141 / 2002-09-18 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK DER EUROPA-UNIVERSITÄT VIADRINA, Acquisition Section.
Frankfurt / Oder. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 110)
142 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄT DER BUNDESWEHR, UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Hamburg.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 118)
143 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Ilmenau.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 111)
144 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Kassel.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 112)
145 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Central Library, Acquisition Section. Mainz.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 113)
146 / 2002-09-19 - TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT, UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. München.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 114)
147 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄT DER BUNDESWEHR, UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Neubiberg.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 119)
148 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Osnabrück.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 115)
149 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK, Acquisition Section. Potsdam.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 116)
150 / 2002-09-19 - UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK WITTEN/HERDECKE, Acquisition Section. Witten.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 117)
151 / 2002-10-01 - GEORG-ECKERT-INSTITUT FÜR INTERNATIONALE SCHULBUCHFORSCHUNG. Braunschweig.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 120)
Extract:
“The targets announced in the grandiloquent speeches, of educating an independent and critically thinking
youth, could really only be achieved if one were to acquaint the population with the criticism and to call for free
discussion. If the relativists soundly believed in their own propaganda, they would have no reason to fear a free
discussion.
Given that no one can claim, since the availability of our documentation, to be unaware of the critical tradition,
the school books should at least mention the existence of this critical tradition and give a number of the
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