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academic analysis of philosopher appearance
ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient philosophy
anti-fashion theory
Athletic Nudity
Author_Nickolas Pappas
Black Clothing
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Cynic philosophy
Cyrenaic Epistemology
Cyrenaic School
Diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes the Cynic
Emperor's New Clothes
Emperor’s New Clothes
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Follow
Funeral Games
Greek Nudity
Greek philosophy
Hold
Infinite Resignation
Part Iii
philosophical identity
philosophy and clothing
Plato
Plato studies
Plato's Academy
Platonic Academy
Platonic philosophy
Plato’s Academy
Secret Doctrine
Slop Shops
Socrates
Socratic tradition
The Academy
The Theaetetus
Theodorus
Thoreau
Trousers
Vice Versa
Wandering
Wo
Wrestling Rooms
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815372394
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Nickolas Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at the City College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
