TY - BOOK ID - 80826508 TI - The two cultures AU - Snow, C. P. AU - Collini, Stefan PY - 1969 SN - 9780511819940 9780521457309 0511001118 9780511001116 0511819943 0521457300 9780521065207 0521065208 9781107387775 1107387779 0521457300 0521065208 9781107606142 0511092148 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Science and the humanities KW - Humanities and science KW - Humanities KW - General KW - History of Scholarship & Learning KW - Science and the humanities. KW - Science KW - Philosophy. KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Culture scientifique et technique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80826508 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 50th 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 -