6 Personal Power and Public Affairs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part One. Introduction
5. 1 Literature, Science, and the Modern Mind 3
6. Part Two. Context and Distance
7. 2 Strangers and Brothers against the Grain 19
8. 3 Blindness, Insight, and the Two Cultures 49
9. Part Three. Snow's Triptych of Literature, Science, and Politics
10. 4 Literature and the State of Siege 75
11. 5 The Unneutrality of Science 105
12. 6 Personal Power and Public Affairs 149
13. Part Four. Epilogue
14. 7 C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity 187
15. Notes 191
16. Select Bibliography 225
17. Index 239