This book is devoted to one of the central problems of contemporary thinking, for which c.P. Snow in 1959 coined the phrase of the Two Cultures . In this concept, human endeavour is directed on one side to the (forward-looking) sci- ences (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) and on the other side to the (backward-looking) humanities (including psychology, linguistics, sociology, etc.). In this dichotomy Snow saw no possibility of unification...