Will the sectarian war of arts and science ever end?

Article Abstract:

There is still a significant gap between arts and science in the UK, even though 40 years have gone by since C.P. Snow argued that science should be seen as a form of culture. All that has happened is that science and literature have swapped places, with science now being more highly regarded than literature. Snow would have been greatly distressed at the fate of his concept of science as a form of culture. It has become clear that his aim of each country in the world reaching the same standards of scientific culture as the UK and the US will not now be reached.

Legislative Bodies, Science & Technology, Analysis, Science, Literature and science

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A free imagination, or the tyranny of the mob?

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The courage of writer Salman Rushdie has highlighted the extent to which literature has been forgotten amid the hatred of art which has come to characterize the 20th century. Modern society persecutes that which is unformulated and unbelievable, and strongly opposes that which is different and being born. This is why Rusdie's efforts to invent a people which is missing have been rejected. The Rushdie affair has forced into the open the long-standing conflict between literature on the one hand and religion and politics on the other.

Influence, Art, Public opinion, Rushdie, Salman

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