Two Cultures? F.R. Leavis on C.P. Snow

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• Professor Stefan Collini
• Thursday 31 October 2013, 18:00-19:00
• Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 3.

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F.R. Leavis’s notorious critique of C.P. Snow on ‘The Two Cultures’ was thought at the time to be unforgiveable – too aggressive, too personal, too Leavis. But Leavis’s lecture can also be seen as exemplifying a recurring dilemma of cultural criticism: how to get a hearing for views that challenge some of society’s most-deeply-held yet unexamined convictions. Professor Stefan Collini questions if such offensiveness is not just unavoidable but also legitimate.

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