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Title: The Two Cultures: and a Second Look. an Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1965
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521457300
ISBN 13: 9780521457309
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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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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This reissue of Snow's controversial Rede lecture of 1959 and it successor piece A Second Look has a new introduction that charts the history and context of the famous debate on the cultural split between the humanities and the sciences.

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