The Two Cultures

by Snow, C. P.; Collini, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9781107606142
• ISBN10: 1107606144
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface to the second edition

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

Notes

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