TY - BOOK AU - Rocamora,Agnès AU - Smelik,Anneke TI - Thinking through fashion: a guide to key theorists T2 - Dress cultures SN - 9781780767345 AV - GT 511 THI PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris KW - Fashion KW - Social aspects KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Thinking through fashion: an introduction / Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik -- Karl Marx: fashion and capitalism / Anthony Sullivan -- Sigmund Freud: more than a fetish: fashion and psychoanalysis / Janice Miller -- Georg Simmel: the 'philosophical Monet' / Peter McNeil -- Walter Benjamin: fashion, modernity and the city street / Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas -- Mikhail Bakhtin: fashioning the grotesque body / Francesca Granata -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the corporeal experience of fashion / Llewellyn Negrin -- Roland Barthes: semiology and the rhetorical codes of fashion / Paul Jobling -- Erving Goffmann: social science as an art of cultural observation / Efrat Tseëlon -- Gilles Deleuze: bodies-without-organs in the folds of fashion / Anneke Smelik -- Michel Foucault: fashioning the body politic / Jane Tynan -- Niklas Luhmann: fashion between the fashionable and old-fashioned / Aurélie Van de Peer -- Jean Baudrillard: post-modern fashion as the end of meaning / Efrat Tseëlon -- Pierre Bourdieu: the field of fashion / Agnès Rocamora -- Jacques Derrida: fashion under erasure / Alison Gill -- Bruno Latour: actor-network-theory and fashion / Joanne Entwistle -- Judith Butler: fashion and performativity / Elizabeth Wissinger N2 - Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This book is designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion ER -