The Two Cultures

The Two Cultures
AuthorC. P. Snow
SubjectScience
GenreNon-fiction
Published1959
PublisherOxford University Press

"The Two Cultures"[1] is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, which was published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year.[2][3] 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.

  1. ^ Snow, Charles Percy (1959), "The Two Cultures (The Rede Lecture)".
  2. ^ Snow, Charles Percy (2001) [1959]. The Two Cultures. London: Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-521-45730-9.
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