Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science vs. the Humanities in the Modern World-system
, by Lee Jr,Richard E- ISBN: 9781594510694 | 1594510695
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 12/2/2004
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.