Empire of Fashion Dressing Modern Democracy

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780691102627
  • 21 juli 2002
  • 288 pagina's
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Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.



In a book full of playful irony and striking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," Lipovetsky bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values. Whereas Tocqueville feared that mass culture would create passive citizens incapable of political reasoning, Lipovetsky argues that today's mass-produced fashion offers many choices, which in turn enable consumers to become complex individuals within a consolidated, democratically educated society. Superficiality fosters tolerance among different groups within a society, claims Lipovetsky. To analyze fashion's role in smoothing over social conflict, he abandons class analysis in favor of an inquiry into the symbolism of everyday life and the creation of ephemeral desire. Lipovetsky examines the malaise experienced by people who, because they can fulfill so many desires, lose their sense of identity. His conclusions raise disturbing questions about personal joy and anguish in modern democracy.

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Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
21 juli 2002
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288
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Hoofdauteur
Gilles Lipovetsky
Hoofduitgeverij
Princeton University Press

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Eerste Vertaler
Catherine Porter
Originele titel
The Empire of Fashion

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152 mm
Product hoogte
19 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
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151 mm
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20 mm
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235 mm
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439 g

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