The Two Cultures (Canto)
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which...
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The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) has a new introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521457309 (0521457300)
ASIN: 0521457300
Publish date: 1993-07-30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 107
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Science,
Culture,
Education,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
History Of Science
Well, I can't possibly rate this book, for it is basically a historical document for me. It was written more than 50 years ago, half a century, when sciences and technologies have not reached their status as of today.But the introduction is superb. It summarizes and analyzes critically, it discusses...
Fascinating essay about the book by Peter Dizikes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Dizikes-t.html who discusses whether a "third culture" (evolutionary biologists, psychologists and neurscientists) is "superseding literary artists in their ability to 'shape the thoughts of their gene...
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