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2 unusual facts about Jean Bricmont

Bricmont

Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and academic

Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes.

Julia Kristeva

And in Intellectual Impostures, two professors of physics, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, devote a chapter to Julia Kristeva's use of mathematics in her writings.

Mediology

Physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont have criticized Debray's work for using Godel's theorem as a metaphor without understanding its basic ideas, in their book Fashionable Nonsense.

French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva have been accused of misusing mathematics in their work; see Fashionable Nonsense (1998) by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.

The Logic of Sense

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont write that The Logic of Sense prefigures the style of works that Deleuze later wrote in collaboration with Félix Guattari, and that, like them, it contains passages that misuse technical scientific terms.