The Atlantic Discusses Morality and Purity Politics with Soc & Anth Professor
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Alexis Shotwell, recently discussed her new book, , in an in-depth interview with .
In , Professor Shotwell proposes that, for the betterment of humankind, we all own up to our shortcomings.
In her book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Alexis Shotwell argues that 鈥減ersonal purity is simultaneously inadequate, impossible, and politically dangerous for shared projects of living on earth.鈥 Focusing on maintaining your own innocence or goodness is counterproductive, she says, to actually fixing the world鈥檚 problems. 鈥 Julie Beck