Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue [electronic resource] : On Social Construction and Freedom /
Nielsen, C.author.
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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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments                      ; Introduction: Why These Unlikely Dialogue Partners?                                                          ; 1 Themes and Their Variations: Harmonizing Humans as Socially Constructed and Free?                                                                                          ; 2 Foucault and Subjectivities                                    ; 3 Frederick Douglass on Power Relations and Resistance "From Below"
4 Fanon on Decolonizing Colonized Subjectivities and the Quest for an Historically Attuned Symphonic Humanism                                                                                                                    5 Duns Scotus and Multidimensional Freedom                                                 ; 6 Recapitulation: Humans as Socially Constructed and Free, an Ongoing Improvisation                                                                                          ; Notes            ; Bibliography                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.
Ethnicity.
Religion—Philosophy.
Ethics.
Religion.
African Americans.
Ethnicity Studies.
Philosophy of Religion.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Religious Studies, general.
African American Culture.