Fashion | Sense is designed to explode "fashion," and with it, the
stigma in philosophy against fashion's superficiality. Fashion
appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and
insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as
if they were something deep. But is fashion's apparent beguilement
more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy's longing for
exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using
primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their
echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion
and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift
between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that
fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion's quarrel with philosophy may be
at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and
poetry alluded to in Plato's Republic. And the quest for fashion's
origins, as if a quest for a neutrally-outfitted self, stripped of
the self-awareness that comes with thinking, prompts questions
about human agency and our immersion in time. The touch of
reality's fabric bristles in our relationship to our looks, not
simply through the structure of clothes but in the plot of our
wearing them. Meanwhile, the fashion of our words sharpens our
meaning like a cutting silhouette. Grewal's own writing is
playfully and daringly self-conscious, aware of its style and the
entrapment it arouses from the very first line. The reactions
provoked by fashion's flair, not only among the philosophical set
but also among those who would never deck themselves out in the
title, "philosopher," show it forth as perhaps philosophy's most
important and underestimated doppelganger.
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