On Fri, 08 May 2009 17:42:06 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Today is the 50th anniversary of the CP Snow's "Two Cultures" lecture. >The Guardian has a piece on how bad things have gotten. >http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/07/cp-snow
Thanks for posting this. A few points: (1) It has been a few decades since I've read "Two Cultures" and this is a good reminder to re-read it (though I wonder where my copy is). (2) The author, Joanthan Jones, writes as though he was unaware of the post-modernist movement and the damage it has done to both the humanities and the sciences, as well as to the public perceptions of those disciplines. Maybe he should revisit the Sokal hoax. (3) The link provided to the article on contemporary novels that "take modern science seriously" reminds me that I need to read some Primo Levi. Elsewhere I love the following passage: | [re: Levi's "The Periodic Table] His memoir narrowly beat |Stoppard's play Arcadia and King Solomon's Ring, the ecologist |Konrad Lorenz's 1952 eulogy to the natural world, a book |described by the event's chair, author Jon Turney, as "the most |charming ever written by a Nazi". -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
