The Two Cultures and a Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution - Softcover

Snow, C. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052109576X ISBN 13: 9780521095761

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Analyzes the problems and consequences of the lack of communication between scientists and non-scientists in the modern world

About this title

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052109576X
• ISBN 13: 9780521095761
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112