The Two Cultures
first publication date: 1959
genre: essay
original title: The Two Cultures, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
original language: English
main subject: scientific culture, humanities, Western world, Western culture, education
"The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow which were published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year. Its thesis was that science and the humanities which represented "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" had become split into "two cultures" and that this division was a major handicap to both in solving the world's problems. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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