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Introduction : What philosophers do ; Philosophy for everyone ; The philosopher as eccentric ; Plato on the normal philosopher ; Socratic legacies ; How the philosopher appears
Part I. Socrates in the Theaetetus : Entering the Theaetetus : Plato's academy ; The academy in Plato's Theaetetus ; The frame of the Theaetetus ; Enter Theaetetus ; Socrates as midwife ; No place for philosophy
Being a philosopher teaching philosophy : The cost of entering the academy ; Unwritten teachings ; The shoemaker ; The Cyrenaics ; Pigs and dogheads ; School as institution ; Conclusion
Philosophy's first citizen : Wrestling and civilization ; Where the wrestling happens ; Two myths of philosophy's beginning (archê) ; Wonder and the rainbow ; Iris the teras Socrates the philosopher ; A new myth of philosophy's archê ; Philosopher as headmaster ; The philosophical gentleman ; Beyond the Theaetetus
Part II. Philosophy regarding fashion : Fashion thinking ; The emperor's new clothes ; Philosophy of fashion today ; Imitation according to the tradition ; Beau Brummell, beyond imitating ; The foreigner
Anti-fashion : Alternative to fashion ; The tradition of anti-fashion ; ANti-fashion today ; The suit ; Denim jeans ; Body art ; Black ; Black and the body
Fashion in antiquity : The threat of anachronism: ancient fashion? ; Diversity and contingency in dress ; Change in dress ; Justifications for change in dress ; Plato's Republic ; "Better"
Part III. The philosopher's new clothes : There is outfit like Greek nudity : Nudity in modern Europe ; Nudity for non-Greeks ; Recent treatments of Greek nudity ; Pausanias ; Inspection, sexual and otherwise ; Chaste nudity ; Ritual nudity ; Civic nudity ; Theaetetus
You can tell a philosopher : The Cynic display of withdrawal ; The limits of philosophical costume ; Platonic philosophical nudity ; Platonic anti-fashion ; Thoreau ; Kierkegaard.
Part I. Socrates in the Theaetetus : Entering the Theaetetus : Plato's academy ; The academy in Plato's Theaetetus ; The frame of the Theaetetus ; Enter Theaetetus ; Socrates as midwife ; No place for philosophy
Being a philosopher teaching philosophy : The cost of entering the academy ; Unwritten teachings ; The shoemaker ; The Cyrenaics ; Pigs and dogheads ; School as institution ; Conclusion
Philosophy's first citizen : Wrestling and civilization ; Where the wrestling happens ; Two myths of philosophy's beginning (archê) ; Wonder and the rainbow ; Iris the teras Socrates the philosopher ; A new myth of philosophy's archê ; Philosopher as headmaster ; The philosophical gentleman ; Beyond the Theaetetus
Part II. Philosophy regarding fashion : Fashion thinking ; The emperor's new clothes ; Philosophy of fashion today ; Imitation according to the tradition ; Beau Brummell, beyond imitating ; The foreigner
Anti-fashion : Alternative to fashion ; The tradition of anti-fashion ; ANti-fashion today ; The suit ; Denim jeans ; Body art ; Black ; Black and the body
Fashion in antiquity : The threat of anachronism: ancient fashion? ; Diversity and contingency in dress ; Change in dress ; Justifications for change in dress ; Plato's Republic ; "Better"
Part III. The philosopher's new clothes : There is outfit like Greek nudity : Nudity in modern Europe ; Nudity for non-Greeks ; Recent treatments of Greek nudity ; Pausanias ; Inspection, sexual and otherwise ; Chaste nudity ; Ritual nudity ; Civic nudity ; Theaetetus
You can tell a philosopher : The Cynic display of withdrawal ; The limits of philosophical costume ; Platonic philosophical nudity ; Platonic anti-fashion ; Thoreau ; Kierkegaard.