Böcker av Stuart (Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing Sim

This is the first source-book for the cross-disciplinary area of post-marxism. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies.

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 its reach. International tycoons, economists and politicians are obsessed with economic growth. Yet, as Stuart Sim shows, the pursuit of excessive profit brought the world to the brink of economic chaos in the recent credit crisis and threatens us with environmental disaster as well. Despite this, neoliberalism still sets the agenda for economic policy in the West. Sim suggests various act up strategies so that we might resist becoming slaves to personal gain and, in doing so, he demonstrates that life neednt be all about profit.Key Features:* Analyses the psychology behind our fetishization of profit* Demonstrates the threat that neoliberalism poses to our public services - healthcare and education in particular* Explores the debate of altruism versus self-interest through the neuroscientific literature* Argues the case for a return to a more socialistic consciousness to combat neoliberalism

How the current paradigm of technologically driven economic progress could destroy the planet and its socio-economic systems

The Carbon Footprint Wars challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment and offers some radical solutions for dealing with climate change.

This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.

This book mounts a strong argument for silence, arguing that we need more rather than less of it in our lives.

Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.