C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity / / John de la Mothe.
The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus...
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de la Mothe, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity / John de la Mothe. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013] ©1992 1 online resource (263 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Introduction -- 1 Literature, Science, and the Modern Mind -- Part Two. Context and Distance -- 2 Strangers and Brothers against the Grain -- 3 Blindness, Insight, and the Two Cultures -- Part Three. Snow's Triptych of Literature, Science, and Politics -- 4 Literature and the State of Siege -- 5 The Unneutrality of Science -- 6 Personal Power and Public Affairs -- Part Four. Epilogue -- 7 C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and writings—most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution—reflect a persistent struggle with the nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and technology were at the center of modern life. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Civil service Great Britain Biography. Novelists, English 20th century Biography. Scientists Great Britain Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/711488 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292758957 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292758957/original |
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