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A Taste for Fashion
In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 199–214 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Philosophers' Denigration of Fashion Taste and Style Genius Love of Beauty as A Moral (Or Proto‐moral) Motive Conclusion.Author's Profile
Immanuel Kant, and taste for fashion ‐ claiming in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, that fashion be classified as vanity and foolishness Kant's condemnation of fashion ‐ associating fashion with mere novelty in production philosophers' denigration of fashion ‐ fashion in dress or clothes, between fashion and lack of creativity, change for its own sake Hanson, arguing of a distinctive disapprobation of fashion ‐ compared to other areas of taste Pappas, like Hanson, examining reasons ‐ for historic philosophical hostility towards fashion Kant, accounting for a judgment of taste ‐ as an aesthetic one, feelings of pleasure or displeasure Kant's account, extended to the wearer of fashion ‐ as taste, needed to create fashion, to judge fashion, putting a look or style together genius, defined by Kant ‐ “genius is the talent (natural gift) that gives the rules to art” genius, characterised by originality ‐ exemplary models, not governed by rules fashion, part of life
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