C.P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity by John De LA Mothe - 1992-06

Very Good. Tight, clean, bright, unmarked pages. Square spine. Gently used copy in very good dust jacket.

Very Good. <p>THE CONDITION OF MODERNITY springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of individuality that is generated by the nexus of science, literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a way of balancing our personal identities between our public and private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge, which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980) attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities. <p>While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.