C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity /

C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity / / John de la Mothe.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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de la Mothe, John,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2013]
©1992
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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