Description
Book SynopsisAn intellectual biography of a novelist, scientist, and civil servant who attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities.
Trade Review"C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity is engaging and challenging. Its scholarship is impressive. Intelligence and sensitivity inform the analysis of this complex and most crucial subject matter. It is a first-rate intellectual biography."oAlkis Kontos, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto ". .. an original, provocative, and convincing study... significant not only in its own right as the most comprehensive study to date of Snow's life and works but also as a successful integration of the three principal areas of his life and works: literature, science, and politics."oHoward P. Segal, Associate Professor of History, University of Maine
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Introduction
- 1. Literature, Science, and the Modern Mind
- Part Two. Context and Distance
- 2. Strangers and Brothers against the Grain
- 3. Blindness, Insight, and the Two Cultures
- Part Three. Snow’s Triptych of Literature, Science, and Politics
- 4. Literature and the State of Siege
- 5. The Unneutrality of Science
- 6. Personal Power and Public Affairs
- Part Four. Epilogue
- 7. C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
