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An edition of Against purity (2016)

Against purity

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The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity, and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, as fundamental to our lives? 'Against Purity' argues that the only answer - if we are to have any hope of tackling the past, present and future of colonialism, disease, pollution, and climate change - is a resounding yes.

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Univ Of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Pages
236

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Subjects
Purity (Philosophy), Modern Civilization, Conduct of life, Purity (Ethics), Ethics, Civilization, modern, 21st century
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21st century

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Table of Contents

Complexity and complicity : an introduction to constitutive impurity
Part I. Reckoning with a fraught past. Remembering for the future : reckoning with an unjust past
"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. Shimmering presences : frog, toad, and toxic interdependencies
Consuming suffering : eating, energy, and embodied ethics
Part III. Shaping unforeseeable futures. Practicing freedom : disability and gender transformation
Worlds to come : imagining speculative disability futures
Conclusion : the point, however, is to change it.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
170
Library of Congress
BJ1533.P97 S56 2016, BJ1533.P97S56 2016

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Pagination
236 pages
Number of pages
236

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OL27230494M
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0816698627, 0816698643
ISBN 13
9780816698622, 9780816698646
LCCN
2016008376
OCLC/WorldCat
951157646

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