Fifty years after the physicist and novelist CP Snow ignited a debate about the split in western culture between science and the arts, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Music are marking the occasion with a discussion about science and creativity.
In a New Statesman article on October 6 1956, Snow claimed scientists had "the strength of a social force behind them", while the arts were "like a state whose power is rapidly declining".
He lamented the "indifference" scientists showed towards philosophy, the low profile of the graphic arts and the way in which the "younger rank and file" of scientists "hardly read at all", but concluded that it was "traditional culture" which had more to lose.
No comments:
Post a Comment