It is for these writings that he received a full-chapter denunciation from the physicist Alan Sokal (along with Jean Bricmont), due to his alleged misuse of physical concepts of linear time, space and stability. In contrast to Fukuyama's argument, Baudrillard maintained that the "end of history", in terms of a teleological goal, had always been an illusion brought about by modernity's will towards progress, civilisation and rational unification.
He was criticized by physicist Alan Sokal (along with Jean Bricmont) for allegedly misusing physical concepts of linear time, space and stability in his writings. In contrast to Fukuyama's argument, Baudrillard maintained that the "end of history," as a teleological goal, had always been an illusion brought about by modernity's drive towards progress, civilization, and rational unification.