Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion

Giovanni Matteucci is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.Stefano Marino is a Researcher and Lecturer of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.

• Introduction: Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion- 1 Philosophical Accounts of Fashion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Stefano Marino- 2 Fashion: A Conceptual Constellation, Giovanni Matteucci- 3 Anti-Fashion: If Not Fashion, Then What?, Nickolas Pappas- 4 Fits of Fashion: THe Somaesthetics of Style, Richard Shusterman- 5 On Fashion Criticism, Lars Svendsen- 6 Thought Without Concept: Carol Christian Poel's Paradoxical Aesthetics, Christian Michel- 7 Caprices of Fashion in Culture and Biology: Charles Darwin's Aesthetics of 'Ornament', Winifried Menninghaus- 8 Fashionable Proteus: The Euphoria of FAshion for Fashion's Sake, Cesar Moreno-Marquez- 9 The Fascination of Contingency: Fashion and Modern Society, Elena EspositoIndex

This edited volume brings together international scholars of philosophy and fashion, contributing to filling the gap for philosophical research in the field. They show that these two disciplines are not as an unlikely pairing as it may seem, insofar as the experience of clothing has been, and will continue to be, a subject of inquiry. And it is this inquiry, at the heart of this book, that challenges the reader to reconsider what fashion is and could be.