原文：At least the title of C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures has entered into the general currency of thought in the Western world. This book contains Snow's original 1959 Rede lecture as well as a follow up published five years later (The Two Cultures: A Second Look). These are coupled with an introduction by Stefan Collini which runs to over seventy pages; this sets both Snow and his lecture in historical context and reconsiders them in the light of the last thirty years.
Snow's basic thesis was that the breakdown of communication between the sciences and the humanities (the "two cultures" of the title) was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. This is combined with some criticism of the British education system and some broad suggestions as to how to change it. It is hard to see why quite such a fuss was made over Snow's lecture at the time; as he himself was the first to admit (in the second work), nothing he said was particularly original. Perhaps the time was just ripe for a controversy.
Snow's ideas are clearly dated (his view of science and the arts was formed at Cambridge in the 1930s), and his viewpoint is very simplistic in places (his somewhat naive assumption of the ability of science to solve the world's problems is perhaps the most notable). Any communication problem between the arts and the sciences is now subsumed by a much more general fragmentation of human learning, a fragmentation which is actively lauded by many. The introduction (which is in many ways more interesting than the actual text) discusses these issues and others.
While no longer essential reading, The Two Cultures still warrants attention from anyone interested in the history of ideas. Coupled with an impressive introduction and released under Cambridge University Press' affordable Canto imprint, this is definitely a worthwhile volume.
November 1993
至少C.P.斯诺的两种文化的标题已经进入思想在西方世界通用货币.这本书包含了雪的原1959瑞德演讲以及随访五年后出版的（两种文化：一眼）.这些再加上由斯特凡柯里尼厚达七十页的介绍；这集雪和他的历史语境中的讲座和反思他们在过去三十年的光.
雪花的基本主题是：科学与人文之间的通信故障（“两种文化”的称号）是解决世界问题的一个主要障碍.这是结合一些批评的英国教育体系和一些广泛的建议如何改变它.很难理解为什么这么大惊小怪了斯诺的演讲时间；他是第一个承认（在第二工作）,没有他说特别原始.也许时间是一个争议的成熟.
雪的想法显然是过时的（他的科学观和艺术是20世纪30年代在剑桥形成）,他的观点是非常简单的地方（他有点天真的假设的科学解决世界问题的能力也许是最显着的）.艺术和科学之间的任何沟通上的问题,都已被归入一个更一般的碎片的人学习,一个破碎的积极被很多.介绍（这是在许多方面比实际的文字更有趣）讨论了这些问题和其他问题.
而不再必要的阅读,两种文化仍然令人思想的历史感兴趣的关注.再加上一个令人印象深刻的介绍和发表剑桥大学出版社的负担得起的坎托下,这无疑是一个值得的体积.
十一月1993