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The Philosopher's New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

By Nickolas Pappas

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
0815372396, 9780815372394
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
534 kB (547077 bytes)
Pages
234\0
Time added
2023-03-03 13:44:44

Description

This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers – how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy’s orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live.

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