Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science vs. the humanities in the modern world-system
, by Lee Jr,Richard ENote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781594510687 | 1594510687
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/15/2004
This book tells the story of how the very idea of 'two cultures' - the so-called divorce between science and the humanities - was a creation of the modern world-system that was consolidated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the establishment of the faculties and disciplines of the modern university system.