Blogs con causa paso a paso « Luis García de la Fuente.com. Fundación Orange. Asociación Semilla - Inicio. Información y Servicios para el Tercer Sector - ONG - FUNDACIONES - ASOCIACIONES - EMPLEO - CURSOS - RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL. THE THIRD CULTURE. The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are. In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized. A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.
Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. In 1959 C.P. How did the literary intellectuals get away with it? The recent publishing successes of serious science books have surprised only the old-style intellectuals.