Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University, UK. A Fellow of the English Association, he has published widely in the fields of critical theory and the novel as social criticism. Recent works include The End of Modernity (2010), The Lyotard Dictionary (ed., 2011), and Fifty Key Thinkers in Postmodernism (2013).
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Stuart Sim: Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
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 demonst …
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Stuart Sim: Introducing Critical Theory
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 product …
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€5.99
Stuart Sim: Post-Truth, Scepticism & Power
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 ph …
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€80.24
Stuart Sim: Post-Marxism
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 seco …
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€102.96
Stuart Sim: Empires of Belief
This book challenges all forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint.Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious f …
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€43.51
Stuart Sim: Manifesto for Silence
This book makes an urgent demand for silence. The ability to think, to reflect, and to create are all highly dependent on regular access to silence. Yet in today’s noisy, 24/7 society silence and qui …
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€45.11
Stuart Sim: Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues
This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face …
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€32.14
Stuart Sim: Carbon Footprint Wars
Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effec …
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€42.43
Stuart Sim: End of Modernity
Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis – what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from th …
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€37.40
Stuart Sim: Lyotard Dictionary
Jean-Francois Lyotard is famed for being one of the most acute observers on the cultural phenomenon of the postmodern, and his ideas resonate throughout the academic world, from philosophy and the so …
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€37.23
Stuart Sim: Addicted to Profit
Will our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in?The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from i …
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€42.12
Stuart Sim: Addicted to Profit
Will our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in?The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from i …
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€42.23
Stuart Sim: Post-Marxism
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 seco …
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€66.55
Stuart Sim: Post-Marxism
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 seco …
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€66.58
Stuart (Northumbria University, UK) Sim: Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers
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 …
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€43.52
Stuart (Northumbria University, UK) Sim: Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers
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 …
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€43.34
Stuart Sim: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, t …
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€38.58
Stuart Sim: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, t …
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€38.43
Stuart Sim: Contemporary 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 …
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€42.27
Stuart Sim: Contemporary 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 …
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€42.34
Stuart Sim & David Walker: The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding
In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period”s discourse o …
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€50.97
Stuart Sim & David Walker: The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding
In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period”s discourse o …
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€51.41
John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress
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, h …
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€3.85
Samuel Pepys: Concise Pepys
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 cod …
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€3.84
Stuart Sim: Lyotard Dictionary
Jean-Francois Lyotard is famed for being one of the most acute observers on the cultural phenomenon of the postmodern, and his ideas resonate throughout the academic world, from philosophy and the so …
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€37.23
Sim Stuart Sim: Philosophy of Pessimism
There are many reasons to despair over the state of the world today: climate change, war, terrorism, social injustice, and an utter failure by our political systems to fix them. Yet there will always …
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€32.08
Sim Stuart Sim: Insatiable
Hurling our financial markets through tempests of speculation, driving our businesses into practices of simultaneous austerity (for those on the bottom) and lavish expenditure (for those on the top), …
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€28.71
Stuart Sim: Insatiable
In recent years, greed has become a prominent problem in the public domain. This is mainly because the global financial industry has become more and more unscrupulous in the pursuit of greater profit …
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Stuart Sim: Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory
Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. …
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€53.55
Stuart Sim: Lyotard and Politics
It is Jean Francois Lyotard’s political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably ’thinking politics’: finding ways of translating philo …
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€35.50
Stuart Sim: Lyotard and Politics
It is Jean Francois Lyotard’s political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably ’thinking politics’: finding ways of translating philo …
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€35.81
Stuart Sim: Reflections on Post-Marxism
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 Di …
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€41.99
Stuart Sim: Reflections on Post-Marxism
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 Di …
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€38.68
Stuart Sim: Call to Dissent
Dogmatism, prejudice and bigotry are becoming ever more evident on the contemporary political scene and dissent is one of their main targets. The Politics of Dissent explores the negative impact this …
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€20.52
Stuart Sim: Call to Dissent
Dogmatism, prejudice and bigotry are becoming ever more evident on the contemporary political scene and dissent is one of their main targets. The Politics of Dissent explores the negative impact this …
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€20.55
Stuart Sim: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Covid-19
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, …
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€48.14
Stuart Sim: Post-Marxism
This is the first source-book for this cross-disciplinary area. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relation …
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€34.56
Stuart Sim: Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory
Featuring an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. …
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€53.78
