The Two CulturesThe notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This 50th anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed. |
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User Review - Steve_Walker - LibraryThingBack in the 1950's this book was all the rage. Now? I think it is still relevant,but in different way. In the United States science and the humanities are casted aside by certain sectors of the left ... Read full review
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User Review - antao - LibraryThingAs a maths and physics graduate, I observe that most compilers of the best books of all-time lists are, self-evidently, not from my side of the cultural divide. They should at the very least, it seems ... Read full review
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| Title | The Two Cultures Canto Classics |
| Author | C. P. Snow |
| Editor | Stefan Collini |
| Contributor | Stefan Collini |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1107606144, 9781107606142 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / General |
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