*The Two Cultures* is the first part of an 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.
The talk was delivered 7 May 1959 in the Senate House, Cambridge, and subsequently published as *The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution*. The lecture and book expanded upon an article by Snow published in the *New Statesman* of 6 October 1956, also entitled *The Two Cultures*. 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*. [[Wikipedia][1]]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures "Wikipedia"
Book Details
Format
paperback
ISBN-10
0521457300
ISBN-13
9780521457309
Publication Date
Jul 1993
Item Weight
0.53 pounds
Length
8.50 inch
Width
5.51 inch
Height
0.51 inch
Subtitle
an expanded version of the Two cultures and the scientific revolution
Charles Percy Snow was born in Leicester and educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College (now the University of Leicester) and the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College in 1930. His first novel, Death Under Sail, was published in 1932. He was technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940-1944; he was civil service commissioner from 1945-1960; he was Rector of the University of St. Andrews from 1961-1964; and he was parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Technology from 1964-1966. In 1950 he married novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson. He was knighted in 1957 and made Baron Snow of the City of Leicester in 1964. He wrote over 25 books.
