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The past few years have seen a remarkable merging of issues in a number of erstwhile largely separate areas of intellectual endeavour. C. P. Snow some while ago provoked a storm of controversy by arguing that a chasm had opened up between the natural sciences and the humanities. But one could perhaps claim (as some did at the time) that this in fact understated the case.
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Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (London: New Left Books, 1979).
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Giddens, A. (1982). Literature and Society: Raymond Williams. In: Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86056-2_10
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