A Dialectical Journey through Fashion and Philosophy

• Main Author: Kang, Eun Jung (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Modern philosophy.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Culture.; Modern Philosophy.; Self and Identity.; Sociology of Culture.

This book takes an in-depth look at the integration of fashion and philosophy. It challenges the deeply rooted prejudice or misconception that fashion is a field limited to body-oriented and appearance-related themes and practices. It also reveals that fashion is intermeshed with distinctively moder...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Why Should Philosophy Matter to Fashion
• 1.2 Why Does Fashion Matter to Philosophy
• 2 What Immanuel Kant Would Say about Fashion: Metaphysics of Pursuit of the Self by Way of Fashion
• 3 Fashion and Freedom: An Adornian Critique
• 4 In Search of Unintentional Truth: From Experience (Erfahrung) through Dialectics to Fashion
• 5 The Dialectical Image: The Redemption of Fashion
• 6 Universal Consciousness, Experience (Erfahrung), and Fashion
• 7 Fashion as A Utopian Impulse: The Inversion of Political Economy via the Consumption of Fashion
• 8 The Dialectical Sublation by the Consumption of Fashion
• 9 Fashion History in Light of the Philosophy of History.