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C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity

C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity

De La Mothe, John

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ISBN10: 0292729162
ISBN13: 9780292729162
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jul 1 1992
Pages: 263
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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