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1 online resource (166 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cultural and media studies
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Cultural and media studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166). |
| Contents |
A critical inquiry into fashion -- Fashion as a philosophical topos : a historical prelude -- Key question, method and structure -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
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, ideals and desires such as values and symbols of social recognition, beautification and rejuvenation. Although the reference to such meta-goods is obvious to some consumers, their rootedness in philosophical theories of human nature is less apparent, even for the marketers and advertisers themselves. This book is of special interest for researchers and students in the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Marketing, Advertising, Fashion, Cultural Critique, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, and for anyone interested in the ways in which fashion operates. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Fashion -- Philosophy.
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Fashion. |
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Philosophy. |
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Fashion -- Sociological aspects.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Irons, John, 1942- translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meinhold, Roman. Fashion myths. Bielefeld : Verlag, [2013] 9783837624373 (DLC) 2013465826 (OCoLC)860698377 |
| ISBN |
9783839424377 (electronic book) |
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3839424372 (electronic book) |
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9783837624373 (paperback) |
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3837624374 (paperback) |
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