What do clothes say? Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down?

What do clothes say?

Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down?

 

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Shahidha Bari

is a lecturer in romanticism at Queen Mary University of London. She has written for the Financial Times, The Guardianand The Times Literary Supplement. Her latest book is Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations (2012).

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