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Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times de Alexis Shotwell

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Autor Alexis Shotwell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2016

Evoluția filozofiei morale contemporane reflectă o îndepărtare necesară de idealurile abstracte ale purității, orientându-se spre o înțelegere a modului în care subiecții sunt imersați în structuri de complicitate sistemică. În Against Purity, descoperim o critică tranșantă a dorinței de a „rămâne curat” într-o lume marcată de toxicitate, injustiție și moșteniri coloniale. Alexis Shotwell argumentează că încercarea de a atinge o puritate etică individuală este nu doar imposibilă, ci și contraproductivă, alimentând o neprihănire de sine care ne izolează de responsabilitatea colectivă.

Lucrarea este structurată riguros, începând cu o introducere despre „impuritatea constitutivă” și continuând cu analize aplicate. Reținem capitolele dedicate modului în care clasificările medicale au influențat campaniile împotriva SIDA și cercetarea despre „interdependențele toxice” reprezentate de amfibieni. Această abordare face din Against Purity o alternativă la Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia pentru cursurile de filozofia mediului sau etică socială, cu avantajul că integrează dimensiunea dizabilității și a genului ca piloni centrali în gestionarea crizelor sistemice. Dacă în Knowing Otherwise – Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding, Shotwell explora prejudecățile implicite și obiceiurile mentale, aici autoarea extinde analiza către practicile de memorie critică și activismul politic.

Progresia argumentului ne poartă de la recunoașterea suferinței în consumul de energie și hrană către o viziune speculativă asupra viitorului. Alexis Shotwell nu oferă o soluție facilă, ci propune o etică a solidarității în imperfecțiune, poziționând mișcările sociale ca administratori ai trecutului și incubatoare pentru viitoruri eliberate de sub imperativul normalizării sau al vindecării forțate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816698646
ISBN-10: 0816698643
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor din filozofie, sociologie și studii de gen care caută un cadru teoretic solid pentru a naviga dilemele etice ale prezentului. Against Purity oferă cititorului o eliberare de sub povara perfecționismului moral, înlocuindu-l cu instrumente practice pentru activism colectiv. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum putem acționa etic într-o lume fundamental compromisă, fără a cădea în nihilism sau pasivitate.

Despre autor

Alexis Shotwell este profesoară la Departamentul de Filozofie al Universității Laurentian din Ontario, Canada. Expertiza sa se situează la intersecția dintre ontologie, etică și filozofie politică, cu un accent deosebit pe epistemologiile marginalizate. În lucrări precum The Center Must Not Hold, a explorat critic mecanismele prin care whiteness-ul definește câmpul conceptual al filozofiei. Activitatea sa academică este dublată de un angajament profund față de justiția socială, reflectat în modul în care integrează teoria critică a rasei și studiile despre dizabilitate în analiza problemelor sistemice contemporane.

Descriere scurtă

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. Proposing a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures, Against Purity undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, disability, gender, and animal ethics as a foundation for an innovative approach to the politics and ethics of responding to systemic problems. 
Being against purity means that there is no primordial state we can recover, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha. There is no preracial state we could access, no erasing histories of slavery, forced labor, colonialism, genocide, and their concomitant responsibilities and requirements. There is no food we can eat, clothes we can buy, or energy we can use without deepening our ties to complex webbings of suffering. So, what happens if we start from there? 
Alexis Shotwell shows the importance of critical memory practices to addressing the full implications of living on colonized land; how activism led to the official reclassification of AIDS; why we might worry about studying amphibians when we try to fight industrial contamination; and that we are all affected by nuclear reactor meltdowns. The slate has never been clean, she reminds us, and we can’t wipe off the surface to start fresh—there’s no fresh to start. But, Shotwell argues, hope found in a kind of distributed ethics, in collective activist work, and in speculative fiction writing for gender and disability liberation that opens new futures.

Notă biografică

Alexis Shotwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Philosophy, at Carleton University. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding.

Cuprins

Contents
Complexity and Complicity: An Introduction to Constitutive Impurity
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
3. Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic Interdependencies
4. Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, and Embodied Ethics
5. Practicing Freedom: Disability and Gender Transformation
6. Worlds to Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
Conclusion: The Point, However, is to Change It
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Exciting, original, and intellectually stimulating, Against Purity makes a clear and compelling argument for a politics of relationality that resists the demand for ‘purity’. Even as Alexis Shotwell challenges the basic assumptions of ethical and political philosophy, she also builds pathways for more conventional thinkers to find their way into her discourse."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives

"Exciting, original, and intellectually stimulating, Against Purity makes a clear and compelling argument for a politics of relationality that resists the demand for ‘purity’. Even as Alexis Shotwell challenges the basic assumptions of ethical and political philosophy, she also builds pathways for more conventional thinkers to find their way into her discourse."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives
"Readers will find Against Purity to be timely and important, drawing together distinct but nonetheless congruent strains of theorizing that enable and facilitate new modes of collective action."—PhænEx, Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture
"On a planet overtaken by the problems and figure of man, this perspective is crucial to keep in mind for both scholarly and worldly work."—Journal of Cultural Economy
"Shotwell’s clearly ordered prose makes a wide citational range easily accessible. ...Against Purity is an informative and exciting text."—Enculturation, A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture
"Against Purity is a vitally important book. It offers us ways of being in the world that do not deny the thick messiness and entanglement of our interconnectedness."—Feminist Formations
"The book is accessible and uses minimal technical language. The full text, or excerpts, would be equally appropriate to assign for an undergraduate course in the sociology or anthropology of biomedicine and health or STS as it would be for a qualifying examinations list or advanced graduate seminar in fields ranging from medical anthropology to critical studies of nuclearity. The book ought to become part of the institutional apparatuses of undergraduate and graduate education in STS, disability studies, critical histories of AIDS, and social studies of ecological disaster and toxic environments. For feminist and queer STS scholars, Against Purity is essential reading. Non-STS scholars in fields such as ethics or bioethics will find a serious-yet-playful book that pushes the normative boundaries of those fields."—Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
"Shotwell upends traditional ways of understanding the discipline of philosophy, which has its own purity myth. At the same time, Against Purity presents a model for scholarship that challenges and enriches the discipline: centering diverse scholars including indigenous, queer, black, and women scholars, and producing broadly applicable ethical work."—Hypatia Reviews Online