Overcoming the Two Cultures

This book tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures-the so-called divorce between science and the humanities-was a creation of the modern world-system. The contributors working from a common research framework trace the divorce of facts and values as part of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This led to a polarization between universalist science and the particularist humanities and finally to the creation of the social sciences as an uneasy intermediary in this epistemological debate. The book addresses the contemporary attempts to overcome the division between the two cultures that emerge from science feminism race and ethnic studies cultural studies and ecology ending with an analysis of the culture wars and the science wars. Contributors: Volkan Aytar Ayse Betul Celik Mauro Di Meglio Mark Frezzo Ho-fung Hung Biray Kolloupglu K3/4rl3/4 Agustin Lao- Montes Eric Mielants Boris Stremlin Sunaryo Norihisa Yamashita Deniz Yukeseker.