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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:The two cultures controversy: science\, literature
  and cultural politics in postwar Britain - Guy Or
 tolano (University of Virginia)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090521T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090521T180000
UID:TALK17778AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/17778
DESCRIPTION:This talk will be about my recent book _The Two Cu
 ltures Controversy: Science\, Literature and Cultu
 ral Politics in Postwar Britain_ (Cambridge\, 2009
 ). Ever since the scientist-turned-novelist C.P. S
 now clashed with literary critic F.R. Leavis in th
 e early 1960s\, it has been a commonplace to lamen
 t that intellectual life is divided between 'two c
 ultures'\, the arts and sciences. Yet why did a to
 pic that had long been discussed inspire such fero
 cious controversy at this particular moment? This 
 talk answers that question by recasting this dispu
 te as an ideological conflict between competing vi
 sions of Britain's past\, present and future. By e
 xcavating the political stakes of the 'two culture
 s' controversy\, this talk seeks to explain the wo
 rkings of cultural politics during the 1960s more 
 generally\, while also revising the meaning of a t
 erm that continues to be evoked to this day.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science
 \, Department of
CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
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