ID - 462361 TI - The two cultures AU - Snow, C. P. AU - Collini, Stefan PY - 2012 SN - 9781107606142 9781139196949 1139196944 9781107414549 1107414547 1107606144 1107386969 1139893963 1107395496 1107387779 1107390699 1107263247 1322521433 9781107386969 9781139893961 9781107395497 9781107387775 9781107390690 9781107263246 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of science KW - Sociology of culture KW - Humaniora. KW - Kunst. KW - Science and the humanities. KW - Technische wetenschappen. KW - Wissenschaft. KW - Wissenschaftsphilosophie. KW - Humanities and science KW - Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:462361 AB - 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. ER -