The Two Cultures by C P Snow
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.-
What is Life?
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Governing the Commons
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A Mathematician's Apology
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Mortal Questions
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The Invention of Tradition
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The Discarded Image
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The New Knighthood
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English as a Global Language
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On Growth and Form
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An Experiment in Criticism
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Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings
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Mr Tompkins in Paperback
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Morality
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Aztecs
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The Golem
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Think on my Words
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The Spanish Labyrinth
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780
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The Decipherment of Linear B
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The Trial of the Templars
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'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
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Studies in Words
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Language Death
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The Allegory of Love
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The Life of Isaac Newton
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States and Social Revolutions
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Quantum Physics
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
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Information and the Nature of Reality
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Science and Religion
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453
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Spenser's Images of Life
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The Sicilian Vespers
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Medieval Women
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The English Language
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The Golem at Large
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On Space and Time
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The British Isles
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What Was History?
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Selected Literary Essays
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Ecological Imperialism
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The Theft of History
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
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When Things Fell Apart
'Both the lecture itself and the controversy it spawned are complex phenomena, and in his editions of Snow's lecture and of the most famous response to it, by the literary critic FR. Leavis, Stefan Collini has carefully and skillfully disentangled the many strands. The tale he tells is instructive in many respects - and perhaps more important now than it was when Leavis gave his response, fifty years ago.' Alan Jacobs, Books and Culture
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107606142 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107606144 |
| Title | The Two Cultures |
| Author | C P Snow |
| Series | Canto Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2012-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 179 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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