The year 2005 is the centenary of the birth — and the 25th anniversary of the death — of C.P. Snow, the British physicist, novelist, and longtime denizen of the "corridors of power". Snow's best-known work, was a highly influential polemic entitled The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

Delivered by Snow as the prestigious Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1959 before being published as a brief book shortly thereafter, this lecture is commonly interpreted as a public lamentation over the extent to which the sciences and the humanities have drifted apart in late modernity, to the extent that practitioners of either of the two disciplines know little, if anything, about the other and that communication is difficult, if not impossible, across the gulf of mutual incomprehension” between natural scientists and the “literary intellectuals.

I've interpreted Snow's thesis as an apology of the progressive scientific culture coupled to the death of the regressive literary culture; an apology for technoscience in the context of the Cold War. Throughout the text we have the slide from the humanities to literary culture to traditional culture to unscientific to the anti-scientific prejudice of the whole ‘traditional’ culture.” We end up with the literary intellectuals as the natural Luddites and scientists having the future in their bones.
Huh?
Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Kant are “traditional” representatives of “the philosophical current of the humanites and are far from being anti-science. They are pro-science.

The critical reaction to natural science comes with Hegel, Nietzsche, Bergson, Heidegger and Gadamer then it is a philosophical criticism to the positivist conception of science, with its anti-theoretical bias, its ignorance of the metaphysical underpinnings of science, its correspondence of theory of truth , its reduction of knowledge to science, its emotivist conception of ethics etc etc.

Snow is in the traditon of T.H. Huxley and the scientific enlightenment tradition, which holds that literature and the humanities should, and inevitably would be, supplanted by natural science.