The Third Culture

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Oskar Gruenwald ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Unity In Diversity

This essay explores a new conceptual paradigm for bridging the gulf separating what C. P. Snow called The Two Cultures--science and the humanities. Central to this rainbow paradigm is a more unified, holistic, and integral understanding of human life in society. A fruitful science-theology dialogue presupposes a much broader context of a revitalized Third Culture which weaves together insights from all the arts and sciences, social sciences and humanities. The essay thus invokes the incarnational dimension of man as God's creation and truth as the Logos or ultimate Reality. The conclusion follows that a new lingua franca--a more felicitous conceptual understanding focusing on man as the missing link-requires integrative insights across all disciplines. Such an integral vision of what it means to be fully human reflects a sapiential, existential, and eschatological challenge of unity in diversity, that is, a truly human culture or a culture of cultures.

Empathy and Interdisciplinarity

2017 ◽  
pp. 91-124
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Two Cultures

This chapter asks how, in the context of the medical humanities, we might productively think across disciplinary domains and boundaries. It draws on Ian McEwan’s Saturday as a focus for positioning the question of interdisciplinarity within a specifically British context. The first section, ‘The two cultures’, surveys the ‘two cultures’ debate and its legacy and discusses the appearance of Matthew Arnold’s poem ‘Dover Beach’ at a critical point of the novel. In the second section, ‘A third culture?’, the focus turns to McEwan’s engagement with popular science discourses and argues that it underpins a discernible conservatism in his work. The final section, ‘An unbounded view’, reads Saturday against the grain to argue that, in McEwan’s treatment of dementia a more positive, open-ended model for thinking across the arts and sciences might be seen to emerge.

scholarly journals Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between

Leonardo ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Vesna
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Elite ◽  
Emerging Culture ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Scientific Innovations

Artists working with technology are frequently informed and inspired by exciting scientific innovations, and often turn to contemporary philosophical interpretations of these events, which positions them in between the “two cultures,” a position that creates the potential for a “Third Culture,” as predicted by C.P. Snow himself. This emerging culture is not composed of the scientific elite as some propose, but will emerge out of triangulation of the arts, sciences and humanities. Although media artists are posed to play an important role in bridging the cultural and language gaps, this essay warns against adopting humanist interpretations of scientific work or taking for granted scientific assertions without active dialogue with both.

scholarly journals On Cultures and Artscience: Interdisciplinarity and Discourses of “Twos” and “Threes” after Snow’s Two Cultures

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Sørensen Vaage
Keyword(s):  
Third Culture ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Third ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Media Discourses

<div><p>At least since C.P. Snow’s seminal Rede lecture The Two Cultures, the idea of a significant difference in kind between the natural sciences and the arts and humanities has been prevalent in Western culture. A gap has been perceived to exist not only in methodology and theory, but more fundamentally, in understandings and worldviews. This has resulted in a dichotomous debate both in academic and media discourses. As a reaction to this, and parallel in time, some actors have strived to achieve a ‘third culture’. This is a common attitude in the still emerging field of ‘artscience’, whose actors seek to combine the advantages and knowledges of the sciences with those of the arts and humanities. Researchers from every concerned field have contributed to the exploration of the interface between ‘art’ and ‘science’. However, I argue in this article that the very term artscience, in simply joining together the words ‘art’ and ’science’, is reenforcing an old notion of a binary opposition between these two fields.  The idea of ‘two cultures’, still implied within the image of a ‘third culture’, disguises the plurality of perceptions and approaches within and across fields. While useful in pointing out lack of communication between fields, it tends to overemphasize divisions, ignore complexities, and, in some cases, leave out important parts of the picture. I suggest that the discourse of the ‘third culture’ and the term ‘artscience’ may jointly occlude the multiple possible constellations of practitioners, roles and approaches, and may be a potential limitation to interdisciplinary collaborations.</p><div> </div></div>

The Poetry and Music of Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom McLeish
Keyword(s):  
School Leaver ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Poetry And Music

‘I could not see any place in science for my creativity or imagination’, was the explanation, of a bright school leaver to the author, of why she had abandoned all study of science. Yet as any scientist knows, the imagination is essential to the immense task of re-creating a shared model of nature from the scale of the cosmos, through biological complexity, to the smallest subatomic structures. Encounters like that one inspired this book, which takes a journey through the creative process in the arts as well as sciences. Visiting great creative people of the past, it also draws on personal accounts of scientists, artists, mathematicians, writers, and musicians today to explore the commonalities and differences in creation. Tom McLeish finds that the ‘Two Cultures’ division between the arts and the sciences is not after all, the best classification of creative processes, for all creation calls on the power of the imagination within the constraints of form. Instead, the three modes of visual, textual, and abstract imagination have woven the stories of the arts and sciences together, but using different tools. As well as panoramic assessments of creativity, calling on ideas from the ancient world, medieval thought, and twentieth-century philosophy and theology, The Poetry and Music of Science illustrates its emerging story by specific close-up explorations of musical (Schumann), literary (James, Woolf, Goethe) mathematical (Wiles), and scientific (Humboldt, Einstein) creation. The book concludes by asking how creativity contributes to what it means to be human.

DARIAH(-DE): Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities — Concepts and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Henrich ◽  
Tobias Gradl
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Digital Research

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is part of the European Strategy on Research Infrastructures. Among 38 projects originally on this roadmap, DARIAH is one of two projects addressing social sciences and humanities. According to its self-conception and its political mandate DARIAH has the mission to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices. One main distinguishing aspect of DARIAH is that it is not focusing on one application domain but especially addresses the support of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and arts. The present paper first gives an overview on DARIAH as a whole and then focuses on the important aspect of technical, syntactic and semantic interoperability. Important aspects in this respect are metadata registries and crosswalk definitions allowing for meaningful cross-collection and inter-collection services and analysis.

The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Relations Of Power

Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of identities-related theorizing, accumulated across the arts, social sciences and humanities over many decades, continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations. Moreover, in times which are more reflexive, narcissistic and liquid the identities of participants in organizations are increasingly less fixed, less secure and less certain, making identities issues both more salient and more interesting. Particular attention has focused on processes of identity construction (often styled ‘identity work’), how, why and when such processes occur, and their implications for organizing and individual, group and organizational outcomes. This has resulted in a burgeoning stream of research from discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic perspectives that (most often) casts individualsâ efforts to fabricate identities as intentional, relational, and consequential. Seemingly intractable debates centred on the nature of identities â their relative stability/fluidity, whether they are best regarded as coherent or fractured, positive (or not) and how they are fabricated within relations of power â combined with other conceptual issues, continue to invigorate the field, but have led also to some scepticism regarding the future potential of identities research. As the chapters in this handbook demonstrate, however, there are considerable grounds for optimism that identity, as root metaphor, nexus concept and means to bridge levels of analysis, has significant generative utility for multiple streams of theorizing in organization and management studies.

scholarly journals Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Brotherhood ◽  
Philip Ball ◽  
Paul M Camic ◽  
Caroline Evans ◽  
Nick Fox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Public Building ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Planning Framework

Created Out of Mind is an interdisciplinary project, comprised of individuals from arts, social sciences, music, biomedical sciences, humanities and operational disciplines. Collaboratively we are working to shape perceptions of dementias through the arts and sciences, from a position within the Wellcome Collection. The Collection is a public building, above objects and archives, with a porous relationship between research, museum artefacts, and the public.  This pre-planning framework will act as an introduction to Created Out of Mind. The framework explains the rationale and aims of the project, outlines our focus for the project, and explores a number of challenges we have encountered by virtue of working in this way.

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