The two cultures

by Snow, C. P.,, (Charles Percy)

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Title Statements

Full title :The two cultures / C.P. Snow ; with an introduction by Stefan Collini.

Summary

The 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 fiftieth 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1998

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1998

Notes

Originally published as: The two cultures and the scientific revolution.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (lxxiii, 107 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139196949, 1139196944, 9781107414549, 1107414547, 1107386969, 9781107386969, 1139893963, 9781139893961, 1107395496, 9781107395497, 1107387779, 9781107387775, 1107390699, 9781107390690, 1107263247, 9781107263246
oclc:ocn883852846
LC Classification:AZ361
Dewey Decimal:501

The two cultures / C.P. Snow -- The Rede lecture (1959) -- The two cultures -- Intellectuals as natural Luddites -- The scientific revolution -- The rich and the poor -- The two cultures: a second look (1963).