The Philosopher's New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy's Turn against Fashion - Paperback

by Nickolas Pappas (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Nickolas Pappas is Professor of Philosophy at the City College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA