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UNINA9910794606103321 |
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Autore |
Snow C. P (Charles Percy), <1905-1980, > |
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Titolo |
The two cultures / / C.P. Snow ; with an introduction by Stefan Collini [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (lxxiii, 107 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Science and the humanities |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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