Literature and society

Raymond Williams

pp. 133-143

in: Anthony Giddens, Profiles and critiques in social theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1982

Abstract

The past few years have seen a remarkable merging of issues in a number of erstwhile largely separate areas of intellectual endeavour. C. P. Snow some while ago provoked a storm of controversy by arguing that a chasm had opened up between the natural sciences and the humanities. But one could perhaps claim (as some did at the time) that this in fact understated the case.