By C. P. Snow
The inspiration that our society, its schooling procedure and its highbrow existence, is characterized through a break up among cultures – the humanities or humanities on one hand and the sciences at the different – has an extended background. however it was once C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that introduced it to prominence and commenced a public debate that remains raging within the media this day. This 50th anniversary printing of the 2 Cultures and its successor piece, A re-evaluation (in which Snow replied to the debate 4 years later) positive factors an creation through Stefan Collini, charting the background and context of the talk, its implications and its afterlife. the significance of technological know-how and know-how in coverage run mostly by way of non-scientists, the longer term for schooling and study, and the matter of fragmentation threatening hopes for a typical tradition are only a few of the matters mentioned.
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Secondly, surely Nancy is confusing two dissimilar things here, the first ‘religion’ which is a mode of interpreting texts and ‘art and literature’ which are texts. indd 39 7/12/2001 7:37:56 AM 40 Deconstruction without Derrida quite capable of assuming (even believing in) the sameness of the other with the best of them. We are urged to ‘hear these terms in all their truth’ but their ambiguity and elasticity (which is also their truth) seems to be interfering with my philosophical hearing aid. Thirdly, it is not clear to me that ‘belief ’ should be so readily tied to religion and ‘faith’ not so.
This can all be read as a consideration of preparable religion, or, revelation through clarity. e. Isaiah, not Isaac who was almost sacrificed by his Father as a result of pre-parable revelation) concerning less figurative presentations of the good news. e. indd 32 7/12/2001 7:37:55 AM Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 33 should heal them’. Nancy’s reading of this must be that the parables are designed to prevent the unblocking of ears and sight and to prevent conversion. However, one might also say that the important word in this sentence is ‘lest’, which can be read with Nancy to suggest ‘so that they do not’ but equally as meaning ‘unless’, that is, that at some point they should hear the meaning of these parables and be healed.
The difficulty Nancy has set up for himself by a gesture which simultaneously universalizes religion and all art and literature (as if they were to be received in the same way) leads his text into a constant negotiation between its own contradictory impulses to philosophize and to deconstruct. At the end of it, what has been heard, what we have been listening to, and what has been eclipsed is still in considerable doubt. indd 40 7/12/2001 7:37:56 AM Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 41 The Nancy code Let me conclude this chapter, and so make a return to the remit and ambit of touch, by accounting for Nancy’s reading of the ‘noli me tangere’ to suggest that this very text and its numerous representations might present difficulties for Nancy’s hypothesis concerning literature and art.