Canto Classics: The Two Cultures (Paperback)

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This book is essentially the published version of a famous lecture given by C.P. Snow in the 1950s about what he saw as the increasing distance between the humanities and the sciences in contemporary science and the modern university. Sometimes polemic and frequently dated, the lecture nonetheles...

from Stodelay

This book is essentially the published version of a famous lecture given by C.P. Snow in the 1950s about what he saw as the increasing distance between the humanities and the sciences in contemporary science and the modern university. Sometimes polemic and frequently dated, the lecture nonetheles...

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Back in the 1950's this book was all the rage. Now? I think it is still relevant,but in different way. In the United States science and the humanities are casted aside by certain sectors of the left and the right. Witness the so-called American Tea Party. Or take for example the idea in among low...

from antao

As a maths and physics graduate, I observe that most compilers of the best books of all-time lists are, self-evidently, not from my side of the cultural divide. They should at the very least, it seems to me, be required to read C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" and "The Scientific Revolution", not ...

from Ray_Cavanaugh

I am surprised this work is not more a part of the liberal arts college curriculum; it's clearly written, pretty short, and addresses a very interesting, relevant issue - the split between literary intellectuals and scientific intellectuals. These two groups, each comprised of many very smart peo...