Synopsis
This book is based on C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959. The lecture consisted of the different views of the two cultures--science on one hand, and the arts or humanities on the other, and thus sparked a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This reissue has a new introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife.
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Book Description
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.
Review
"Stefan Collini's introduction and annotation of this new edition of the lecture not only help to contextualize and rehabilitate it but also bring to the surface ideas that have relevance today as academics and educationalists try to address the increasing division between science and the humanities."
Yvone Lysandrou, Morning Star
"Both the lecture itself and the controversy it spawned are complex phenomena, and in his editions of Snow's lecture and of the most famous response to it, by the literary critic F. R. Leavis, Stefan Collini has carefully and skillfully disentangled the many strands. The tale he tells is instructive in many respects - and perhaps more important now than it was when Leavis gave his response, fifty years ago."
Alan Jacobs, Books and Culture
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