Main entry:

Ortolano, Guy.

Title & Author:

The two cultures controversy : science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain / Guy Ortolano.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Description:

xi, 295 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-281) and index.
C.P. Snow and the technocratic liberalism -- F.R. Leavis and the radical liberalism -- A tale of two colleges -- The making of English social history -- The rise of national 'decline' -- Post-colonial developments -- The eclipse of the meritocratic moment.

Summary:

Since C.P. Snow clashed with 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. Ortolano recasts this dispute as an ideological conflict between competing visions of Britain's past, present, and future.

ISBN:

9781107402706
1107402700

Subject:

Science and the humanities Great Britain.
Sciences et sciences humaines Grande-Bretagne.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Science and the humanities.
Great Britain Intellectual life 1945-
Great Britain Civilization 1945-
Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 1945-
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 1945-
Great Britain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288603
Call No.: DA566.4 .O78 2011
Status: Available