Queer fish : Christian unreason from Darwin to Derrida / John Schad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schad, John, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture--History--19th century.

Christianity and culture.

Intellectual life--History--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Christianity and culture--History--20th century.

History.

Intellectual life--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction

'Dover Beached' 1

Part I Three Moderns

1 Boat Memory: Darwin's Strange Sea of Faith 9

Dead fish 9

With a hammer 13

Galilean space 18

2 Marx and Angels: The Silly Lives of Saints and Communists 24

Analogical 24

Confessional 31

Oriental 43

3 Stations: Freud's Christian Trains of Thought 47

Station to station 47

War to war 59

Bridge out into 66

Part II Four Fish and an Umbrella

4 Subterranean Soul: Dickens' Cryptic Church 77

Undermining the city 77

'Not my father's house' 84

Postscript, or the left umbrella 90

5 The Love that Dare Not Speak its Christian Name: Oscar Wilde's Perversion 94

Behind 94

Lines 102

Badly cast 111

6 Joycing Derrida, Churching Derrida: Glas, eglise and Ulysses 116

Before 116

Bomb 120

Black 123

Boat 128

Conclusion

'What has not yet happened' 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-172) and index.

ISBN:

184519019X

1845190203

OCLC:

54857919