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.
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