{"id":4561,"date":"2017-01-23T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:15:08","slug":"alexis-shotwell-interviewed-julie-beck-atlantic-new-book-purity-living-ethically-compromised-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2017\/alexis-shotwell-interviewed-julie-beck-atlantic-new-book-purity-living-ethically-compromised-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Shotwell interviewed by Julie Beck from the Atlantic about her new book &#8220;Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The US-based magazine The Atlantic has just published an interview with Alexis Shotwell about her new book (with University of Minnesota Press) &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/against-purity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times<\/a>. &nbsp;In her book, Professor&nbsp;Shotwell proposes that, for the betterment of humankind, we all own up to our shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2017\/01\/purity-politics\/513704\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Prof. Shotwell\u2019s interview with <em>The Atlantic\u2019s<\/em> Julie Beck.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US-based magazine The Atlantic has just published an interview with Alexis Shotwell about her new book (with University of Minnesota Press) &nbsp;Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. &nbsp;In her book, Professor&nbsp;Shotwell proposes that, for the betterment of humankind, we all own up to our shortcomings. Read Prof. Shotwell\u2019s interview with The Atlantic\u2019s Julie [&hellip;]<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20968,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/20968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}