The two cultures / / C.P. Snow ; with an introduction by Stefan Collini [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794606103321
• Autore: Snow C. P (Charles Percy), <1905-1980, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-107-38696-9; 1-139-89396-3; 1-139-19694-4; 1-107-41454-7; 1-107-39549-6; 1-107-38777-9; 1-107-39069-9; 1-107-26324-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (lxxiii, 107 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Canto classics
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetti: Science and the humanities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Stefan Collini. The 'two cultures' in historial perspectigve ; Snow's life ; Development of the idea of the 'two cultures' ; Reactions and controversies ; The changing map of the disciplines ; Specialisation ; The 'two cultures' in a changing world ; A note on further reading ; Preface to the second edition -- The two cultures / C.P. Snow. The Rede lecture (1959). The two cultures ; Intellectuals as natural Luddites ; The scientific revolution ; The rich and the poor -- The two cultures: a second look (1963) -- Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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. 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.