Introduction
What philosophers do
Philosophy for everyone
The philosopher as eccentric
Plato on the normal philosopher
Socratic legacies
How the philosopher appears
Part I. Socrates in the Theaetetus
Chapter 1. Entering the Theaetetus
Platos Academy
The Academy in Platos Theaetetus
The frame of the Theaetetus
Enter Theaetetus
Socrates as midwife
No place for philosophy
Chapter 2. Being a philosopher teaching philosophy
The cost of entering the Academy
Unwritten teachings
The shoemaker
The Cyrenaics
Pigs and dogheads
School as institution
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Philosophys first citizen
Wrestling and civilization
Where the wrestling happens
Two myths of philosophys beginning (arche)
Wonder and the rainbow
Iris the teras
Socrates the philosopher
A new myth of philosophys arche
Philosopher as headmaster
The philosophical gentleman
Beyond the Theaetetus
Part II. Philosophy Regarding Fashion
Chapter 4. Fashion in philosophy
Fashion thinking
The emperors new clothes
Philosophy of fashion today
Imitation according to the tradition
Beau Brummell, beyond imitating
The foreigner
Chapter 5. Anti-fashion
Alternative to fashion
The tradition of anti-fashion
Anti-fashion today
The suit
Denim jeans
Body art
Black
Black and the body
Chapter 6. Fashion in antiquity
The threat of anachronism. Ancient fashion?
Diversity and contingency in dress
Change in dress
Justification for change in dress
Platos Republic
Better
Part III. The Philosophers New Clothes
Chapter 7. There is no outfit like Greek nudity
Nudity in modern Europe
Nudity for non-Greeks
Recent treatments of Greek nudity
Pausanias
Inspection, sexual and otherwise
Chaste nudity
Ritual nudity
Ritual nudity and athletics
Civic nudity
Theatetus
Chapter 8. You can tell a philosopher
The Cynic display of withdrawal
The limits of philosophical costume
Platonic philosophical nudity
Platonic anti-fashion
Thoreau
Kierkegaard