The two cultures
by Snow, C. P.,, (Charles Percy)
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 …
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- Full title :The two cultures / C.P. Snow ; with an introduction by Stefan Collini.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
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Publié à l'origine sous le titre : The two cultures and the scientific revolution.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (lxxiii, 107 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139196949, 1139196944, 9781107414549, 1107414547
- oclc:on1104459270
- LC Classification:AZ361
- Dewey Decimal:501
Table of Contents
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).
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