Nielsen offers a dialogue with Foucault, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon and the Augustinian-Franciscan tradition, investigating the relation between social construction and freedom and proposing an historically friendly, ethically sensitive, and religico-philosophical model for human being and existence in a shared pluralistic world.

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Cynthia R. Nielsen is a Catherine of Siena Fellow in the Ethics Program at Villanova University, USA

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Introduction Chapter 1: Themes and Their Variations: Harmonizing Humans as Socially Constructed and Free? Chapter 2: Foucault and Subjectivities Chapter 3: Frederick Douglass on Power Relations and Resistance 'From Below' Chapter 4: Fanon on Decolonizing Colonized Subjectivities and the Quest for an Historically-Attuned Symphonic Humanism Chapter 5: Duns Scotus and Multidimensional Freedom Chapter 6: Recapitulation: Humans as Socially Constructed and Free, An Ongoing Improvisation Bibliography