LIBA 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: C. P. Snow, Dennis Eichhorn, The Two Cultures
8 Feb 2018
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Liba 202 october 5 2016 presentation of snow. The two cultures: intellectual life of western society: split into (cid:498)two cultures(cid:499) (cid:523)the sciences and the humanities) controversial reaction. Educational and professional background in the arts and sciences; family history with the industrial revolution. Studied at cambridge and had the idea of making vitamin a artificially, but was wrong and shamed. Unable to become a scientist he turned to novels. He claimed that sciences were being emphasized too much over the humanities. Between them: mutual incomprehension, hostility, and dislike. Clashing point of the two cultures would produce creative opportunities for reconciliation. England: where this culture divide is especially strong; they are too. Chapter 2: intellectuals as natural luddites luddites are opposed to increased industrialization and technological advancement. Upper class intellectuals in 10th century england are luddities because the industrial revolution hit earlier; english educational institutions benefited from industrialization, but never acknowledged it.
