Week 1: Two Cultures This week’s material regarding the concept of Two Cultures is a very new idea to me, something I had never really thought about before. Yet, after reading about the conception of this idea and the reality of the divisions and connections between these two worlds, it becomes very visible in my life and education. Snow’s revolutionary writing pointed to the polarization of academia through the divide between science and art, in which two distinct cultures have diverged in seemingly opposite directions. Snow describes the reason for this gap in “The two cultures and scientific revolution”, stating “between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension- sometimes hostility and dislike, but most of all a lack of understanding”(4). It becomes clear that the worlds of scientific discovery and the literary arts are not intrinsically different, they are misunderstood in relation to each other. The gap between science in art is shown to be bridged by CP Snow’s rev...
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