Through a detailed and in-depth contextualization of Fink’s thought, [Marino and Matteucci] succeed in highlighting its topicality by comprehensively outlining his discourse on fashion as a philosophical question, being highly controversial today.

Phenomenological Reviews

An important historical document of fashion theory, revealing the deep ambiguities and dialectics that the allegedly superficial phenomenon of fashion shares with our fundamental human condition.

Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics

Essential reading for anyone interested in recovering the philosophical depth of appearances. This compelling work, beautifully translated alongside a superb new Introduction, is here rediscovered in its first English edition.

Gwen Grewal, The New School, USA

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This book stands out for its attention to some aspects of fashion, particularly the close relationship between the body and its affective aspect ... a welcome addition to the “classics” of fashion history and theory.

Fashion Theory

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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Introduction, by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci…So That the Meaning is Evident (Introduction), by Walter Spengler1. The Magical Powers of Fashion2. The Social Phenomenon of Fashion3. Fashion – The Wish to Be Always Different4. Appeal and Performance of Fashion5. Fashion Has Many Faces6. Leadership or Seduction in Fashion7. Is Fashion Existentially Justified?GlossaryIndex of names
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The first English translation of German philosopher Eugen Fink’s seminal book on philosophical approaches to fashion.
First English translation of a book by the remarkable fashion theorist and leading phenomenologist Eugen Fink

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ISBN
9781350200388
Publisert
2023-08-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
U, 05
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
138

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Eugen Fink (1905-1975) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Giovanni Matteucci is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.