The Wildest Apostasy
Psychedelic Knowledge and Racial Delirium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4439032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darieck Scott (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-374 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-11626617 |
| OpenAlex | W4409716577 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay explores how British author Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) illustrates the fascinations and pitfalls of investments in "racial delirium" in ways that are similar to the kinds of knowledge produced by psychedelic experience
Apostasy · Delirium · Psychiatry · Theology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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