About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1993-07-30
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Great copy. Clean & unmarked inside & out. Just a hint of wear to the covers. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. And A Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. 3rd Prt'g, September. Cover scuffed, creased, rubbed; sticker ghost front cover. Top edge foxed. Organization bookplate inside front cover. Underlining throughout text. Interior beginning to tan. Sound copy. See my website for cover image. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 12mo 6.75-7.75'' tall. Nice Firm Clean copy! 58 pages. 'Scientific culture' and 'literary culture' have become separated by a gulf of mutual incomprehension, often marked by hostility and dislike. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780521065207ISBN:0521065208
Description: Hardcover. Discarded library book. Moderate wear Book in very good condition, dust jacket has light water mark on back. Pages lightly tanned. Binding tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 7th printing. 58 pp. Includes notes. The Rede Lecture 1959. Blue cloth covered boards are rubbed at edges and corners. Binding tight. Pencilled price on ffep. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: at the University Press
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No Jacket. A 12mo pamphlet of 51p. Covers moderately soiled; former owner's name, notes and underlining in text, Good. Fourth printing stated. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. No Remainder Mark, No Damage. Ship twice daily. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 108pp, notes. Small green cloth hardback with dust jacket in very good condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: Good. --*** Expect to see light wear and some spine creasing *** Dispatched in padded packaging. ** UK SELLER-Get it in days not weeks ** read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.5 by.51 inches. (181 pages) 50th anniversary printing based on c. p snow's rede lecture of 1959 that brought the two cultures debate to prominence. the notion that our society is characterised by a split between two cultures-the arts or humanities, and the sciences-has a long history. this 50th anniversary printing features an introduction by stefan collini, charting the history, context, implications and afterlife of a debate that still rages today. the notion that our ... read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex library hardback with D/J, usual stamps/markings. 1964 2nd edition-D/J worn/tatty, page edges grubby & some pencil highlighting, otherwise in reasonable/good condition. Will despatch within 24 hours. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521457309ISBN:0521457300
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 181 pages. (181 pages) 50th anniversary printing based on c. p snow's rede lecture of 1959 that brought the two cultures debate to prominence. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1959 Cambridge Univ. Press, NY
Description: Smaller, slim blue hardcover, no dust jacket. The book has a little light cover edge rubbing; otherwise the book is near fine, with clean, unmarked pages. The printing of Snow's Rede Lecture in 1959. read more
"One of the books I had to read during summer vacations in college, an analysis of the divide between people who understand science and those who focus on art and literature."
"Delightful quick autobiographical read details Snow's mutually exclusive circles of literary and scientific friends. I notice much the same in my own life. I don't meet many mathematicians, scientists or technicians who are into poetry or literature generally."
"The split and subsequent rancor between the humanities, on the one hand, and the sciences, on the other, was first made explicit by C.P. Snow in this Lede lecture delivered I believe in 1954. He generalizes a little too much in parts and could have delved deeper into just how the split is to be bridged. The afterword deals with the criticism that the lecture provoked which I could have done without.
The book would've gotten three stars had it not been for Colinni's Introduction in which he talks about the reactions the lecture evoked from noted English critic F.R. Leavis and Freudian literary critic Lionel Trilling. Trilling is considerably more diplomatic when it comes to pointing out the flaws in Snow's argument yet he agrees with Leavis in that the industrial revolution may have improved the social condition while seriously damaging the individual's condition."
"This is well written (both the original Two Cultures, which was a lecture, and the Second Look a few years later). Both parts are composed of two pieces, one on scientific v. literary culture, and the other on industrial v. developing nations. Snow doesn't adequately explain why these two topics have anything to do with each other. He also holds an attitude toward developing nations that was probably quite progressive in 1959, but seems problematic now. He thinks industrial nations shouldn't be able to tell developing nations what to do, and in particular we shouldn't tell them to not develop, because they're better off as some savages out of Rousseau or something. Fine, but Snow has unlimited faith in what science can do for people, and believes that everyone can live at US/European standards eventually. We now know the Earth can't support this."
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