This book takes a new approach to the question, Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?. Through a reading of theTheaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers - how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of anti-fashion. He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy's orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live. | The Philosopher's New Clothes by Nickolas Pappas, Paperback | Indigo Chapters