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  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    by John Bunyan, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim.John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - Christian - from the City of Destruction via the ... Read more

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  • Introducing Critical Theory

    A Graphic Guide

    by Professor Stuart Sim ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host ... Read more

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  • The Concise Pepys

    by Samuel Pepys, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal ... Read more

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  • Insatiable

    The Rise and Rise of the Greedocracy

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Insatiable exposes the damaging effects of greed in both public and private life, showing how the actions of a socially irresponsible ‘greedocracy’ are systematically undermining our democratic institutions. Ranging across politics, economic theory, the financial world, healthcare, the food industry, sport, religion and the creative arts, it demonstrates how deeply embedded the greed imperative is ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Sartre, Existentialism, and the New Age of Nausea

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the relevance of Sartrean existentialism to the contemporary socio-political landscape, with particular reference to his early novel Nausea and the concepts of bad faith and authenticity outlined in his major philosophical work Being and Nothingness. In an era where political authoritarianism has asserted itself so powerfully internationally and climate crisis has revealed the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Pessimism

    by Stuart Sim ...
    There are many reasons to despair at the state of the world today: climate change and global warming; widespread ‘humanitarian disasters’ caused by war, famine and political corruption; religious intolerance and the growing influence of fundamentalist belief; political terrorism; racism and discrimination against ethnic minorities; the list could go on and on. Reflect on such phenomena at any ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists

    by Professor Stuart Sim, Noel Parker ...
    The A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theories is a companion volume to the already published A-Z Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists. It ranges widely through the social sciences and related areas to identify thinkers who have had a major impact on the development of modern social and political theory and given clear, accessible summaries of their work. While the accent is on ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19

    A Tale of Two Pandemics

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exploration of two chronologically distant societies in crisis, this study compares the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct of the public portrayed in the book and those in our own embattled Covid era. There are interesting similarities to note, with equivalents to the Covid ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reflections on Post-Marxism

    Laclau and Mouffe's Project of Radical Democracy in the 21st Century

    Edited by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Global Discourse
    The world has changed dramatically since the emergence of post-Marxism, and a reassessment is needed to determine its significance in the modern world.First published as a special issue of Global Discourse, this book explores the theoretical position of post-Marxism and investigates its significance in recent global political developments such as Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right. With ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Contemporary Continental Philosophy

    The New Scepticism

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy
    This title was first published in 2000. Contemporary continental philosophy is a widely-used, but in many ways a highly problematic, term and its exact frame of reference is not always clear. In its more recent French manifestations in particular, it continues to arouse considerable controversy and create bitter divisions, with particularly hostile reactions to the work of Derrida and others. Much ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Lyotard and Politics

    A Critical Introduction

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Thinking Politics

    $30.99 USD

  • Post-Truth, Scepticism & Power

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the concept of post-truth and the impact it is having on contemporary life, bringing out both its philosophical and political dimensions. Post-truth is contextualised within the philosophical discourse of truth, with particular reference to theories of scepticism and relativism, to explore whether it can take advantage of these to claim any intellectual credibility. Sim argues ... Read more

    $76.49 USD