Cover -- Contents -- A critical inquiry into fashion -- Fashion as a philosophical topos a historical prelude -- Key question, method and structure -- The fashion concept of proletarized luxury clothing -- Ancestors of fashion: Natural rhythms, trends, costumes -- Pseudo-reincarnation via re-wrapping: ’re-in-vesti-nation’ -- Fashion myths - meta-goods in marketing and advertising -- Philosophic-anthropological implications of fashion -- Pseudo-tragedy -- Melioration -- Reinvestination -- The ideal-typical incarnation of fashion: The Dandy as -- Staging artist -- Aesthete -- Enemy of old age -- Implications of fashion: desiderata of life as an artwork -- Individual existence as entelechy in the social context -- Melioration by means of ascesis -- Philosophy of death and the art of dying -- Conclusion -- References.
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