A Dialectical Journey through Fashion and Philosophy

Eun Jung Kang is an adjunct professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. She earned her PhD at Cornell University in 2012, her MA from New York University in 2005, and her BA from Sungkyunkwan University in 1997. Her MA thesis examined the relationship between art, design, and popular culture from the 1890s to the 1920s in the US, while her PhD dissertation delved into fashion through the lens of critical theory, political theory, and modern social theory. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, and they touch upon various fields of study, such as art, design, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, and visual culture. She has received various fellowships, grants, awards and honors for her research, and has published several articles on her areas of research. She has also served as a referee for Theory, Culture & Society.

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Why Should Philosophy Matter to Fashion.- 1.2 Why Does Fashion Matter to Philosophy.- 2 What Immanuel Kant Would Say about Fashion: Metaphysics of Pursuit of the Self by Way of Fashion.- 3 Fashion and Freedom: An Adornian Critique.- 4 In Search of Unintentional Truth: From Experience (Erfahrung) through Dialectics to Fashion.- 5 The Dialectical Image: The Redemption of Fashion.- 6 Universal Consciousness, Experience (Erfahrung), and Fashion.- 7 Fashion as A Utopian Impulse: The Inversion of Political Economy via the Consumption of Fashion.- 8 The Dialectical Sublation by the Consumption of Fashion.- 9 Fashion History in Light of the Philosophy of History.