About Aardvark Books LTd Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Aardvark Books is a large independent bookshop situated on the border of England and Wales in the Central Marches between the towns of Ludlow and Knighton Powys.
We began trading in January 2004 and have since sold many thousands of books to customers online and who visit the store. We have a strong community ethic, arrange lots of events for local writers, poets, artists and musicians, and consider ourselves to be an ethical business
We would love it if you can come and see us, but if not please buy from us online with confidence. We have high ratings across all platforms and will always try to do deal with any issues promptly.
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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At some point in the nineteenth century, God died, the world grew secular, and Christianity became oppositional, irrational, odd, even queer -- or so the story goes. To explore this narrative, John Schad offers a suitably odd or 'unreasonable' history of what Michel Foucault once called 'Christian unreason'. This proves, in part, to be an unlikely, or uncanny history of Christian involvement in such radical movements and developments as Anarchism, Surrealism, the Absurd, deconstruction, and even quantum physics. It also proves to be a dark and guilty history of Christian involvement in such terrible things and events as slavery, forced conversion, Fenian bombs, the Great War, the Holocaust, and even Hiroshima. 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 twentieth-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. Revisiting 'Dover Beach' is often an appalling event, an event of death; often it is comic or even absurd. Sometimes it is both at once. With chapters devoted to Darwin, Marx, Freud, Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, and Derrida, Queer Fish has plenty for students not only of literature and philosophy but also theology and Jewish studies.