Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida

ISBN-13: 9781845190194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 177 str.

John Schad

Opis

The book begins with Matthew Arnold s Dover Beach and its withdrawing sea of faith as time and again Schad finds the figure of the Christian to be beached, a fish out of water a queer fish, in fact. This, then, is a book that is all at sea beginning with Charles Darwin s voyage to the extreme point of Christendom that was South America, and ending with James Joyce and Jacques Derrida in the same boat, the same ruined, but sea-going, boat that is the 20th-century Western Church. In between: Karl Marx is to be found in 1848 watching the waves of revolution withdraw in Berlin; Sigmund Freud stands incredulous by the shore of Loch Ness; Oscar Wilde is laughed at in the rain at Clapham Junction; and Charles Dickens visits a church for the drowned, a church for ship-wrecked corpses."