The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

by C. P. Snow

Hardcover, 1959

Status

Available

Call number

001

Publication

Cambridge University Press (1960)

Description

This is the publication of the influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures - namely the sciences and the humanities - and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. Published in book form, Snow's lecture was widely read and discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, leading him to write a 1963 follow-up, "The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution."

User reviews

LibraryThing member hailelib

A little book that is a quick and easy read. While definitely dated, Snow has some interesting ideas about the apparent gap between scientific and literary groups, especially in the England of the fifties and sixties.

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LibraryThing member AliceAnna

Definitely not something I would have read had I not been required to for class, however, it makes one think about the lack of communication between artistic types and scientific types.

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