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The Two Cultures Controversy - Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Paperback)
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The Two Cultures Controversy - Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Paperback)
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Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C. P. Snow clashed with
literary critic F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, it has been a
commonplace to lament that intellectual life is divided between
'two cultures', the arts and sciences. Yet why did a topic that had
long been discussed inspire such ferocious controversy at this
particular moment? This 2009 book answers that question by
recasting this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing
visions of Britain's past, present, and future. It then connects
the controversy to simultaneous arguments about the mission of the
university, the methodology of social history, the reasons for
'national decline', and the fate of the former empire. By
excavating the political stakes of the 'two cultures' controversy,
this book explains the workings of cultural politics during the
1960s more generally, while also revising the meaning of a term
that continues to be evoked to this day.
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