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Cultures in Conflict: Perspectives on the Snow-Leavis Controversy
Cultures in Conflict Perspectives on the SnowLeavis Controversy Author:David K. Cornelius, Edwin St. Vincent (From preface) — No writer in our time has spoken more influentially on the subject of the relative significant of science and the humanities than the author of the first selection, Sir Charles Snow; and no article has provoked more animated intellectual controversy than F.R. Leavis' rejoined to Snow, from which the second selection is taken. — C.... more »P. Snow's "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," derives its authority in part from the peculiar qualifications of the author. Snow is, on one hand, a scientist who has played a prominent role in directing scientific projects as an official of the British government and, on the other hand, a serious, prolific, and successful novelist. He may thus be regarded as a successful practitioner in the areas of both of the two "cultures" which he attempts to define - the scientific and the literary or traditional.« less