Fashion myths : a cultural critique /

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Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such 'meta-goods' (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, id...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meinhold, Roman (Autor)
Otros Autores: Irons, John, 1942- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Colección:Cultural and media studies.
Temas:
Fashion > Philosophy.
Fashion > Sociological aspects.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
Fashion and society.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
DESIGN > History & Criticism.
Advertising.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Culture.
Design.
Fashion Studies.
Fashion.
Marketing.
Philosophy of Culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A critical inquiry into fashion
  • Fashion as a philosophical topos : a historical prelude
  • Key question, method and structure
  • The fashion concept of proletarized luxury clothing
  • Ancestors of fashion : Natural rhythms, trends, costumes
  • Pseudo-reincarnation via re-wrapping : 're-in-vesti-nation'
  • Fashion myths : meta-goods in marketing and advertising
  • Philosophic-anthropological implications of fashion
  • Pseudo-tragedy
  • Melioration
  • Reinvestination
  • The ideal-typical incarnation of fashion : the dandy as
  • Staging artist
  • Aesthete
  • Enemy of old age
  • Implications of fashion : desiderata of life as an artwork
  • Individual existence as entelechy in the social context
  • Melioration by means of ascesis
  • Philosophy of death and the art of dying.

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