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Fashion

Full title: Fashion - a philosophical essay

The main focus of this book is on fashionable dress, but the importance of transient fashions in arts, politics and philosophy is also discussed. An important concern for the authors is a clarification of how fashion, modernity and human identity are related. Fashion is a combination of conformity and individual choices. The development of fashion as a historical phenomenon demonstrates a main feature of modernity, namely the break with tradition. The shorter and shorter cycles of fashion indicate a more complicated notion of an increasingly transitory Self. Everyone interested in fashion, art, history, aesthetics and philosophy will find Fashion a fascinating book.

" Fashion is an elegant and relatively easily read tour de force along academic and literary roads into the notion of fashion.... History is combined with contemporary material, academic views with concrete aesthetics; designers are used as examples and are treated on a par with great thinkers - nothing is too big or too small for being included in his considerate analyses...A very convincing book, recommended to everyone who is interested in fashion, sociology and philosophy in a practical or an academic context"

(Mads Nørgaard, Weekend-Avisen, Copenhagen)

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Translations: Danish ("Mode" published by Forlaget Klim, Aarhus), Dutch ( Uitgeverij Ten Have, Kampen), English ("Fashion" published by Reaktion Books, London), Italian ("Filosofia della Moda" published by Ugo Guanda Editores, Parma ), Russian (Published by Progress Tradition, Moscow), Serbian ("Filozofija mode" published by Geopoetika, Belgrade), Swedish (Nya Doxa, Nora).

First published: 2004, Universitetsforlaget

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