Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised TimesCover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Complexity and Complicity: An Introduction to Constitutive Impurity -- Part I: Reckoning with a Fraught Past -- 1. Remembering for the Future: Reckoning with an Unjust Past -- 2. "Women Don't Get AIDS, They Just Die From It": Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS -- Part II: Living in an Interdependent Present -- 3. Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic Interdependencies -- 4. Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, and Embodied Ethics -- Part III: Shaping Unforeseeable Futures |
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User Review - greeniezona - LibraryThingThe desire for purity - especially philosophical/ethical/political purity, is something I've found myself often pondering since the presidential campaign on 2016. So when I saw this book at the ... Read full review
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| Title | Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times |
| Author | Alexis Shotwell |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1452953058, 9781452953052 |
| Length | 236 pages |
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