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  • 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

  • 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

  • Post-Marxism

    An Intellectual History

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by post-structuralism, postmodernism and second-wave feminism. It examines the history of dissenting tendencies within the Marxist tradition and considers what the future prospects of post-Marxism are likely to be. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • 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

  • Lyotard and Politics

    A Critical Introduction

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Thinking Politics

    $30.69 USD

  • Addicted to Profit

    Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market

    by Stuart Sim ...

    $31.99 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

  • 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

  • Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the postmodern movement who have defined and shaped the field, bringing together their key ideas in an accessible ... Read more

    $51.99 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

  • Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

    by Stuart Sim ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 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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