{"id":22091,"date":"2017-01-23T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=22091"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:09","slug":"shotwell-theatlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2017\/shotwell-theatlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Discusses Morality and Purity Politics with Soc & Anth Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n The Atlantic Discusses Morality and Purity Politics with Soc & Anth Professor\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a>, Alexis Shotwell<\/a>, recently discussed her new book, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times<\/a>, <\/em>in an in-depth interview <\/em>with The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times<\/a>, <\/em>Professor Shotwell proposes that, for the betterment of humankind, we all own up to our shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Prof. Shotwell’s interview with The Atlantic’s<\/em> Julie Beck.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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In her book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Alexis Shotwell argues that \u201cpersonal purity is simultaneously inadequate, impossible, and politically dangerous for shared projects of living on earth.\u201d Focusing on maintaining your own innocence or goodness is counterproductive, she says, to actually fixing the world\u2019s problems. \u2013 Julie Beck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Alexis Shotwell, recently discussed her new book, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, in an in-depth interview with The Atlantic. In Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Professor Shotwell proposes that, for the betterment of humankind, we all own up to our shortcomings. Read Prof. Shotwell’s interview with The Atlantic’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90,50,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fass-news","category-research-2","category-sociology-and-anthropology"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34103,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}