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Benjamin Simmenauer.

Faculty members

Benjamin Simmenauer

Philosophy

Professor, Director of Research

Research areas

  • Analytic philosophy
  • Semantics of clothing
  • Fashion theory

Benjamin's research primarily concerns a theory of the meaning of clothing: he uses techniques from formal semantics and pragmatics to describe what can be communicated through clothing. He is also interested in the aesthetic properties of garments and the cyclical phenomena that characterize fashion.

CV

  • PhD thesis in progress at the University of Lorraine, “The Meaning(s) of Fashion,” supervised by Roger Pouivet
  • Philosophy Aggregation, 2002
  • École Normale Supérieure of Letters and Human Sciences, 1999

Other publicaitons

Articles

Simmenauer B., Manière de faire des modes, Communications, Le Seuil, à paraître 2022.
Simmenauer B., Le sens de la mode : prolégomènes, in 19 regards sur la mode, IFM Regard, à paraître, 2022

Books

Émilie Hammen, Benjamin Simmenauer, Les grands textes de la mode, collection Essentiels en poche, Paris, Editions du Regard-Institut Français de la Mode, 2017, 290 p.