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Professor 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.
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Beginning with the emergence of the postmodern, Sim goes on to investigate its philosophy, sociology and politics, science and technology, and finally its aesthetics. In doing so, he communicates what…
Fundamentalism is alive and well and will affect every one of us if we don’t fight it now, argues Stuart Sim.
A look at readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies. Reproducing statements from leading twentieth-century thinkers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Laclau…
Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.
This book mounts a strong argument for silence, arguing that we need more rather than less of it in our lives.
This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.
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Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem facing the human race. And the need to reduce our carbon footprint is urgent. The war of words being waged over…
Drawing on a multidisciplinary team of experts, The Lyotard Dictionary provides a clear and accessible introduction to all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole…
How the current paradigm of technologically driven economic progress could destroy the planet and its socio-economic systems
This A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists is a companion volume to the already published A-Z Guide to Modern Literary and Cultural Theorists. It ranges widely through the…
Professor Stuart Sim,David Walker
The range of John Bunyan’s work, fictional and non-fictional, is rarely captured in literary studies; nor is he often the subject of theoretically-informed readings as in the postmodern perspective adopted…
This A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists ranges through the social sciences and related areas to identify thinkers who have had an impact on the development of modern…
Papers delivered at the fourth triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society held at Bedford, 1-5 September 2004 –Acknowledgements.
Angelique Du Toit,Professor Stuart Sim
Coaching is being proposed as the best method to encourage a change in the ideologies that have brought about the credit crunch. The authors’ concern is to show how coaching…
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This book provides a meaningful route through the tangled jungle of competing theories.
John Bunyan
This allegory of Christian life describes the pilgrimage of the hero, Christian, from the Shadow of Destruction via the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, the Valley of the…
Anne Laurence
This volume of original essays is designed to be of interest to students not only of Bunyan, but of the history, religion and literature of the seventeenth century
