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Zusatztext While there’s no shortage of useful fashion studies readers and reference books for fashion studies students ... none have gone so far as to systematically provide suggestions for the application of key western theorists and philosophers to fashion studies so comprehensibly and concisely. Informationen zum Autor Agnès Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. Anneke Smelik is emerita professor of Visual Culture and Fashion Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Klappentext Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.First 'how to' guide to the ideas of key thinkers for fashion students. Zusammenfassung Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging! being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion! dress! and material culture and! conversely! the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers! introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker! capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion! while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion! dress and material culture! the creative industries! sociology! cultural history! design and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction to Thinking through Fashion Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik 2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism Anthony Sullivan 3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Janice Miller 4. Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet' Peter McNeil 5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas 6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body Francesca Granata 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion Llewellyn Negrin 8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion Paul Jobling 9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation Efrat Tseëlon 10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion Anneke Smelik 11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic Jane Tynan 12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned Aurélie van de Peer 13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning Efrat Tseëlon 14....
