Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System (Fernand Braudel Center Series)
Co-author: Richard E. Lee
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (2004-12)
ISBN-10: 1594510695
ISBN-13: 9781594510694
Price: $48.95
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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.
