{"product_id":"thinking-through-fashion-9781350125209","title":"Thinking Through Fashion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLearning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one''s ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers'' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eThinking Through Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e] would certainly prove useful to anyone making their first foray into the world of academic theory, and also for those needing to refresh their memories on the various theoretical approaches key to the study of western fashion. * The Journal of Dress History *\u003cbr\u003eAn important pedagogical contribution to the field of fashion studies ... \u003ci\u003eThinking Through Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a very accessible guide as to how to use social and cultural theory to analyze fashion in its 'many manifestations'. * Fashion Theory *\u003cbr\u003eWhile there’s no shortage of useful fashion studies readers and reference books for fashion studies students ... none have gone so far as to systematically provide suggestions for the application of key western theorists and philosophers to fashion studies so comprehensibly and concisely. * The Fashion Studies Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Acknowledgements  Introduction to Thinking through Fashion Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik  2.\tKarl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism Anthony Sullivan   3.\tSigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Janice Miller  4.\tGeorg Simmel: The ‘Philosophical Monet’ Peter McNeil  5.\tWalter  Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy  and Vicki Karaminas  6.\tMikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body Francesca Granata  7.\tMaurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion Llewellyn Negrin   8.\tRoland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion Paul Jobling  9.\tErving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation Efrat Tseëlon  10.\tGilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion Anneke Smelik  11.\tMichel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic  Jane Tynan  12.\tNiklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned Aurélie van de Peer  13.\tJean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning Efrat Tseëlon  14.\tPierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion Agnès Rocamora  15.\tJacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure Alison Gill  16.\tBruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion Joanne Entwistle  17.\tJudith Butler: Fashion and Performativity Elizabeth Wissinger   Notes on Contributors  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866593046871,"sku":"9781350125209","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-through-fashion-9781350125209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}