Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System

Richard E. Lee, Immanuel Walllerstein, Eric Mielants

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Abstract

Eric Mielants is a contributing author, "Reaction and Resistance: The Natural Sciences and the Humanities (1789-1945)," p. 34-54.

Book description: 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.

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jan 1 2004

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Sociology

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