UID:
almahu_9949465078802882
Format:
1 online resource (167 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839424377
Series Statement:
Kultur- und Medientheorie
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- A critical inquiry into fashion -- Fashion as a philosophical topos a historical prelude -- Key question, method and structure -- The fashion concept of proletarized luxury clothing -- Ancestors of fashion: Natural rhythms, trends, costumes -- Pseudo-reincarnation via re-wrapping: 're-in-vesti-nation' -- Fashion myths - meta-goods in marketing and advertising -- Philosophic-anthropological implications of fashion -- Pseudo-tragedy -- Melioration -- Reinvestination -- The ideal-typical incarnation of fashion: The Dandy as -- Staging artist -- Aesthete -- Enemy of old age -- Implications of fashion: desiderata of life as an artwork -- Individual existence as entelechy in the social context -- Melioration by means of ascesis -- Philosophy of death and the art of dying -- Conclusion -- References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Meinhold, Roman Fashion Myths Bielefeld : transcript,c2014 ISBN 9783837624373
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
