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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    May 2025
    June 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009277686
    9781009277716
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277686
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    Dimensions:
    (198 x 129 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.27kg, 210 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Sociology: General Interest, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    A Philosopher Looks At
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    Philosophy: General Interest, Sociology: General Interest, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
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    Clothes are much more than just what we put on in the morning. They express our identity; they can be an independent statement or the result of coercion; and they have deeply entrenched historical, political, and social aspects. Kate Moran explores the connections between clothes and philosophy, showing how clothes can illustrate and pose philosophical problems, and how philosophical ideas influence clothing. She discusses what it might mean for an article of clothing to be beautiful; how we communicate with clothes; how we use clothes to navigate our social existence; and how our social existence leaves its mark on our clothes. She also considers the curious relationship between philosophers and children's clothes, legal restrictions on clothing, textile waste, and labor conditions of textile workers. Her absorbing and engaging portrait of our clothes helps us to understand an important and underexplored aspect of our lives.

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