The Philosopher'S New Clothes: The Theaetetus, The Academy, And Philosophy’S Turn Against Fashion

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. 9780815372394 0815372396 234 BOOK Philosophers NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MHhoswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Nickolas Pappas
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0815372396
• | ISBN-13: 9780815372394