The book by Snow Bi kulturak euskaraz

2008/01/01 Lopez Viña, Rakel - Marketin sailaElhuyar Fundazioa Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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1959 C.P. Snow surprised the intellectuals of the time to the statements of the Bi culture of Cambridge. For Snow, western culture can be divided into two opposing poles: literary and scientific intellectuals. The lack of communication between the two poles is causing an ever deeper trench.

In Snow's words this reflection focuses on: "However, I think a pole that doesn't understand science at all affects everything else. This total incomprehension endows the entire "traditional" culture with a certain level of acidity, deeper than what we perceive, and that tone of acidity is greater than what we accept to become anti-scientific. The feelings of one pole become the anti-feeling of the other. If scientists own the future, traditional culture responds that they do not want a future. It is a traditional culture, to which the emergence of scientific culture has made it a small prominent shadow in part, which governs the west!"

Although in his performance he mainly refers to English society and the consequences of his peculiar personality, his reflection, as Snow himself points out, can be transferred to advanced Western societies. An example of this is the controversy and pride generated by Snow's idea in literary and scientific environments.

This work by Snow is a classic between works related to science and society. Applying the time and distance filter this concern can be transferred to the current Basque Country. In a steep prologue, Inaki Irazabalbeitia, with Snow's ideas as exaggerated, XXI. At the beginning of the 20th century science reflects on the role it plays in Basque society.