The two cultures / C.P. Snow ; with introduction by Stefan Collini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980, author.

Contributor:

Collini, Stefan, 1947- writer of introduction.

Series:

Canto.

Canto

Standardized Title:

Two cultures and the scientific revolution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and the humanities.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxiii, 107 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Stefan Collini

Preface to the second edition

PART I. The Rede Lecture (1959) : 1. The two cultures

2. Intellectuals as natural luddites

3. The scientific revolution

4. The rich and the poor

PART II. The two cultures : a second look (1963).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-107).

ISBN:

9780511092145

0511092148

9780511001116

0511001118

9780511819940

0511819943

Publisher Number:

2027/heb03176 hdl