The "Two Cultures": Echos of a Never-ending Debate
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Carlo Tatasciore
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/3
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 173-189 File size 292 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2010-003013
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Fifty years after the publication of the well-known essay by C.P. Snow (1959), the author briefly illustrates the importance it had in the Italian cultural debate of the 1960s, first by analysing some pages by E. Vittorini and I. Calvino and then by examining its more detailed discussion by the philosopher G. Preti. Preti’s opinion on Snow’s book was very critical, but he thought that its success confirmed the seriousness of an ancient problem: the debate between scientific and humanistic culture whose dialectics he considered vital for many aspects. The conclusion is dedicated to G. Steiner’s recent work, who also refers to the crisis of Western civilization, mainly relating it to the "cataclysm" that has struck the educational system, and takes up again C.P. Snow’s themes by suggesting that with the electronic revolution we are now facing a true "third culture".
Keywords: Education, Electronic Revolution, Humanistic Culture, Literacy, Scientific Culture, Third Culture
Carlo Tatasciore, Le "due culture": echi di un dibattito mai interrotto in "PARADIGMI" 3/2010, pp 173-189, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2010-003013