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    Fashion: Seductive Play by Fink, Eugen; Marino, Stefano; Matteucci, Giovanni;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
    • Date of Publication 20 March 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350200395
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 218x140x10 mm
    • Weight 180 g
    • Language English
    • 647

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    In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink's philosophical investigation into fashion to an English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the "phenomenological movement," Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in relationship to other forms of human culture, especially contemporary culture.

    Although there have been many transformations and changes in the world of fashion since the late 1960s, from prêt-à-porter to fast fashion, fashion's connection to both high culture and popular culture, and the new relationship between fashion and the advent of social media, Fink's insights allow wide-ranging and far-reaching inquiries into fashion's philosophical essence. Fink's extraordinary lucidity and his unique conceptual capacities have made his work crucial to the study of the philosophy of fashion today. His work, like that of Simmel's, Veblen's or Benjamin's, is as essential and important now as when it was first published.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction, by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci
    .So That the Meaning is Evident (Introduction), by Walter Spengler

    1. The Magical Powers of Fashion
    2. The Social Phenomenon of Fashion
    3. Fashion - The Wish to Be Always Different
    4. Appeal and Performance of Fashion
    5. Fashion Has Many Faces
    6. Leadership or Seduction in Fashion
    7. Is Fashion Existentially Justified?

    Glossary
    Index of names

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