The third culture

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The third culture (original title The Third Culture ) is a book by the literary agent John Brockman from 1995. In it, the work of some well-known thinkers is presented, who also have the opportunity to present their sometimes quite provocative theses to the public.

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The title of the book refers to CP Snow's 1959 work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution . Snow described in the book the gulf that separates "the two cultures "; on the one hand the literary intellectuals and on the other hand the natural scientists . He diagnosed the one-sided curriculum of the universities as the cause and as a consequence he named the impoverishment of both cultures. In his second study, The Two Cultures: A Second Look in 1963, he prophesied the growth of a “third culture”, a new generation of scientists who are supposed to close the communication gap between the two traditional cultures .

In The Third Culture , Brockman Snow denies the optimistic attitude that effective communication between the two cultures is within sight. Instead, he claims that the current movement of contemporary scholars trying to make answers to the so-called "final questions" more widely available in their popular science publications is the third culture.

The scientists featured in the book include a.

The idea of ​​the Third Culture was picked up in Germany in particular by the FAZ , which opened its feature section to scientists from this area. As the journalist Gábor Paál in his book What is beautiful? shows, Brockman's “Third Culture” largely coincides with what Hegel called Realphilosophie : A type of philosophy that is very much oriented towards scientific facts and thinks ahead where empirical science reaches its limits.

Brockman has continued to work on The Third Culture themes on the Edge Foundation websites . Leading scientists and thinkers convey their ideas there in simple language.

See also

expenditure

  • The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. Simon & Schuster, New York 1995, ISBN 0-684-82344-6 .
German
  • The third culture. The worldview of modern natural science. Transferred from the American by Sebastian Vogel. Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-72035-4 .

literature

  • Cultural Studies versus the "Third Culture" . Slavoj Žižek. The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol 101, No 1, pp 19-32 (2002). (article)
  • Counterculture, Cyberculture, and the Third Culture: Reinventing Civilization, Then and Now . Lee Worden. In: West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, pp. 199-221 (Oakland, 2012).
  • Take the humanities seriously again . Michael Hagner. NZZ.ch, February 10, 2012. (link)
  • The "Third Culture Intellectuals" and Charles Darwin . Pascal Fischer. Anglistentag Konstanz 2013: Proceedings (XXXV), pp. 71-80 (2014). (article)
  • The mind of the user. Or: from the end of the "Boolean dream" . Max Stadler. After work 2013: Digital Humanities, pp. 55–78 (Zurich / Berlin, 2013). (article)
  • Neurohistory Is Bunk ?: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind . Max Stadler. Isis, Vol 105, No 1, pp 133-144 (2014). (article)
  • The Rise of the Third Culture. Transnational Considerations for Creating an Intellectual Myth . Patricia Gwozdz. In: From critical intellectual to media celebrity. On the role of intellectuals in literature and society before and after 1989, pp. 377–398 (Bielefeld, 2015).
  • Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals . Fred Turner. Christine Larson. Public Culture, Vol 27, No 1, pp. 53-84 (2015). (article)
  • Schirrmacher: A portrait . Michael Angele. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (2018).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ CP Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1960.
  2. ↑ Gábor Paál: What is beautiful? Aesthetics and Knowledge. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2425-7 .