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• W300146564 abstract "Abstract The publication in 1959 of the University of Cambridge Rede Lecture by C. P. Snow, entitled The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, is justly remembered for the considerable stir it caused. Sir Charles' account of the growing communication barrier between practitioners of the natural sciences and technical fields, on the one hand, and the arts and humanities, on the other, inspired a veritable blizzard of urbane invective on both sides of the Atlantic, indeed throughout the Anglophone world. Yet, for all the heat, little light was shed on the sources of a profound and growing confusion. The following paper argues for a reinterpretation, 1) of the underlying points C. P. Snow wished to emphasize and, therefore, also for a rehabilitation of certain features of his most controversial work and 2) for a revised understanding of the two cultures, so called. The present author proposes to view them as merely two facets of the same coin: scientia or human knowledge. From this perspective on an intellectual realm newly reunited, curiosity is the principle currency and must be recognized, encouraged, and made the bedrock of decision-making throughout all forms, levels, and institutions of education. Curiosity may have killed the cat. More likely, the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably. Nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough. To distrust what is always said, what seems, to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams, smell rats, leave home, have hunches, does not endear cats to those doggy circles where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches are the order of things, and where prevails much wagging of incurious heads and tails. Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die--only lack of it will. Never to want to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living is an idyll (although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have if they live a tale worth telling at all. Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible, are dangerous, marry too many wives, desert their children, chill all dinner tables with tales of their nine lives. Well, they are lucky. Let them be nine-lived and contradictory, curious enough to change, prepared to pay the cat-price, which is to die and die again and again, each time with no less pain. A cat-minority of one is all that can be counted on to tell the truth; and what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who never know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. Alastair Reid, Weathering (1) Introduction The publication in 1959 of the University of Cambridge Rede Lecture by C. P. Snow, entitled The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, is justly remembered for the considerable stir it caused. (2) is, in fact, well known to have been something of a sensation in the academic world, among literary intellectuals, and even in educational circles at the pre-university level. It rapidly took on the standing of a classic, wrote F. R. Leavis, a few years later. Sixth-form masters were making their bright boys read Snow as doctrinal, definitive and formative--and a good examination investment. (3) To the dismay of this Cambridge colleague, it was undeniable that Snow had made quite a splash. By the early '60's, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution had become the talk of the town on both sides of the Atlantic. was and remains conspicuous that not all the chatter was particularly good-natured or friendly. Beginning with Leavis himself, whose 1962 Downing College Richmond Lecture--also in Cambridge--launched the opening salvo of hostile responses in the form of what Lionel Trilling of Columbia University later called an attack of unexampled ferocity, Snow was subjected to a veritable avalanche of criticism of varying substance and tone. …" @default.
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• W300146564 title "From Outside-In to Inside-Out: Rethinking the Two Cultures and the Contribution of C. P. Snow" @default.
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