The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

Nickolas Pappas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-7239-4 (ISBN)

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This book discusses modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". Pappas argues that the fashion/anti-fashion debate applies to antiquity, 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 philosophy also has to live.

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

Introduction

What philosophers do
Philosophy for everyone
The philosopher as eccentric
Plato on the normal philosopher
Socratic legacies
How the philosopher appears

Part I. Socrates in the Theaetetus

Chapter 1. Entering the Theaetetus

Plato’s Academy
The Academy in Plato’s Theaetetus
The frame of the Theaetetus
Enter Theaetetus
Socrates as midwife
No place for philosophy

Chapter 2. Being a philosopher teaching philosophy

The cost of entering the Academy
Unwritten teachings
The shoemaker
The Cyrenaics
Pigs and dogheads
School as institution
Conclusion

Chapter 3. Philosophy’s first citizen

Wrestling and civilization
Where the wrestling happens
Two myths of philosophy’s beginning (archê)
Wonder and the rainbow
Iris the teras
Socrates the philosopher
A new myth of philosophy’s archê
Philosopher as headmaster
The philosophical gentleman
Beyond the Theaetetus

Part II. Philosophy Regarding Fashion

Chapter 4. Fashion in philosophy

Fashion thinking
The emperor’s new clothes
Philosophy of fashion today
Imitation according to the tradition
Beau Brummell, beyond imitating
The foreigner

Chapter 5. Anti-fashion

Alternative to fashion
The tradition of anti-fashion
Anti-fashion today
The suit
Denim jeans
Body art
Black
Black and the body

Chapter 6. Fashion in antiquity

The threat of anachronism. Ancient fashion?
Diversity and contingency in dress
Change in dress
Justification for change in dress
Plato’s Republic
“Better”

Part III. The Philosopher’s New Clothes

Chapter 7. There is no outfit like Greek nudity

Nudity in modern Europe
Nudity for non-Greeks
Recent treatments of Greek nudity
Pausanias
Inspection, sexual and otherwise
Chaste nudity
Ritual nudity
Ritual nudity and athletics
Civic nudity
Theatetus

Chapter 8. You can tell a philosopher

The Cynic display of withdrawal
The limits of philosophical costume
Platonic philosophical nudity
Platonic anti-fashion
Thoreau
Kierkegaard

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-8153-7239-6 / 0815372396
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-7239-4 / 9780815372394
Zustand	Neuware