Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion

by Leonard C. Feldman

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One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues that the politics of alleged compassion and the politics of those interested in ridding public spaces of the homeless are linked fundamentally in their assumption that homeless people are something...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801472903

ISBN13:9780801472909

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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