Purity is arguably the most enduring desire in a certain strain of philosophy: Plato (the Forms); Kant (noumenon); Rawls (ideal theory). But as creaturely life is embedded and embodied, philosophical reason consists in a furious litany of disavowals. As Kristie Dotson has pointed out, analytic philosophy’s master question really is, “How is this philosophy?” Hence the Kantian “What can I know?” is a disavowal of embodiment; “What must I do?” is a repudiation of the social; “What may I hope?” is a recoil from the ordinary.