Title
Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System
Role
Co-editors: Richard E. Lee, Immanuel Wallerstein
Contributing author: Eric Mielants
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
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.
ISBN
9781594510687
Publication Date
2004
Publication Information
Mielants, Eric. “Reaction and Resistance: The Natural Sciences and the Humanities (1789-1945)” in Richard E. Lee & Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.) Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2004, p. 34-54.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Richard E.; Walllerstein, Immanuel; and Mielants, Eric, "Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System" (2004). Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Book and Media Gallery. 45.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/sociologyandanthropology-books/45
Comments
Copyright 2004 Paradigm Press.
[A Turkish translation of this essay was published as “Tepki ve Direniş: Doğa Bilimleri ve Beşeri Bilimler, 1789-1945” in Immanuel Wallerstein & Richard Lee (eds.) Iki Kültüru Aşmak. Modern Dünya Sisteminde Fen Bilimleri ile Beşeri Bilimler Ayrılığı, Istanbul, Metis Books, 2007, p. 50-76.]