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You're listening to The Partial Examined Life, a podcast by some fellows

who are at one point set on doing philosophy for living with and thought better of it.

Our question for episode 245 is something like

what philosophical meaning lies in clothing

or maybe can philosophy dispense with studying mere appearance?

We read a selection, Susan Sontag's on-style, 1963,

a 1984 interview with Michelle Foucault,

the ethics of the concern of the self as a practice of freedom,

and the beginning of a 1997 address by Jacques Derri-Doc called The Animal That Therefore I Am.

We're also pleased to be joined for this by

Shahid Abarai, author of the 2020 book Addressed, A Philosophy of Clothes.

For more information about these texts, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton Meyer who tried to make my cat a theorem,

but he was having none of it in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskins, dialized if not with style in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alman in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, contemplating what my preference for flannel and other boots

means about myself in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Shahid Abarai in London, and my leg is in a cast because I ruptured my

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