The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives

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This new and expanded edition of G. John M. Abbarno’s anthology The Ethics of Homelessness underscores what is ignored in plain sight: people without a home or dwelling are also without privacy and dignity. It is argued that they lack moral standing. The chapters uncover the harsh realities of poverty where economic value overrides competing human values. Naomi Zack argues that homelessness is symbolic of society’s materialistic values. It has a tendency to resist sufficient charity and perpetuates conditions of injustice. Uma Narayan questions whether the homeless have protection under the U.S. Constitution. Other authors present an enlarged sphere of homeless to include runaway children, refugees, adoptees and the disabled. The book demonstrates the value of applied philosophy. The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgements About the Contributors Introduction Part 1: Literary Dimensions of Homelessness: Verse and Conversation 1 The Guardian of the Birds 2 Poetic Sounds of Homeless Verse 3 Who was "Home" First? Literal and Metaphorical Homelessness in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer 4 Meditations on Homelessness and Being at Home: In the Form of a Dialogue 5 The Homelessness of Refugees Part 2: The Mirror of Homelessness: Is It Essential to Humanity? 6 Homelessness as Heimatlosigkeit? 7 The Rights of the Homeless: An Examination of the Phenomenology of Place 8 Home is Where the Heart Is: Homelessness and the Denial of Moral Personality 9 Homelessness, Virtue Theory, and the Creation of Community Part 3: Internal and External Homelessness in Children 10 Community, Ethics, and Homelessness 11 Psychic Homelessness in Adoptees Part 4: No Home, No Citizenship: Moral and Political Dimensions 12 Homelessness, Philosophy, and Public Policy 13 The Homeless and the Right to "Public Dwelling" 14 No Shelter Even in the Constitution? Free Speech, Equal Protection, and the Homeless 15 Social Policies, Principles, and Homelessness 16 Failed Rights: The Moral Plight of the Mentally Ill Homeless 17 Homelessness, the Right to Privacy, and the Obligation to Provide a Home Part 5: To have a Home: What Difference Does It Make to Be Home? 18 The Homeless Hannah Arendt 19 Talking about Those Home Improvement Blues Part 6: Social Institutions and Homelessness 20 Intended and Unintended Successes 21 Homeless Men and Their Interactions with Law Enforcement 22 UB HEALS Street Medicine: A Model of Care and Connection Part 7: Marginalized Lives 23 Homelessness, Disability, and Oppression 24 The Coloniality of Homelessness Part 8: Homelessness and Vulnerability 25 Ethics, Homelessness and the Artes Liberales/Artes Serviles Distinction 26 Removing the Condition of Homelessness Index