ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |95 pages
Socrates in the Theaetetus
chapter |29 pages
Entering the Theaetetus
chapter |30 pages
Being a philosopher teaching philosophy
chapter |34 pages
Philosophy's first citizen
part |68 pages
Philosophy regarding fashion
chapter |19 pages
Fashion in philosophy
chapter |25 pages
Anti-fashion
chapter |22 pages
Fashion in antiquity
part |54 pages
The philosopher's new clothes