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Fashion | Sense - On Philosophy and Fashion (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,508
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Fashion | Sense - On Philosophy and Fashion (Hardcover): Gwenda-lin Grewal

Fashion | Sense - On Philosophy and Fashion (Hardcover)

Gwenda-lin Grewal

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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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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2022
Authors: Gwenda-lin Grewal
Dimensions: 216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-20145-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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LSN: 1-350-20145-6
Barcode: 9781350201453

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