Fashion / Sense : On Philosophy and Fashion

Name: Fashion / Sense : On Philosophy and Fashion
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Fashion / SenseOn Philosophy and Fashion\nAuthor(s): Gwenda-lin Grewal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350201460, 978-1350201460\nSynopsis\n\""Deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit.\"" Salman Rushdie\n\nFashion | Sense is designed to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashions 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 fashions apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophys longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance?\n\n 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 challeng.