Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment

David Kreps is Lecturer in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, Ireland. He is the author of Cyborgs: Cyborgism, Performance and Society.

• Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction, David Kreps; Chapter 2 The Politics of Truth: For a Different Way of Life, Alex Demirovi?; Chapter 3 Rethinking the Gramsci–Foucault Interface: A Cultural Political Economy Interpretation Oriented to Discourses of Competitiveness, Ngai-Ling Sum; Chapter 4 Power and Resistance: Linking Gramsci and Foucault, Marcus Schulzke; Chapter 5 Building a Gramsci–Foucault Axis of Democracy, Jean-Paul Gagnon; Chapter 6 Subalternity In and Out of Time, In and Out of History, Sonita Sarker; Chapter 7 The Passive Revolution of Spiritual Politics: Gramsci and Foucault on Modernity, Transition and Religion, Jelle Versieren, Brecht de Smet; Chapter 8 Post-Neoliberal Regional Integration in Latin America: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA), Efe Can Gürcan, Onur Bak?ner; Chapter 9 The Hegemony of Psychology: The Practice and Teaching of Paediatrics in Post-Invasion Iraq, Heather Brunskell-Evans; Chapter 10 The Complexity of Social Systems: Could Hegemony Emerge from the Micro-Politics of the Individual?, David Kreps;

’This provocative, pluralistic, and wide-ranging volume explores critically and productively convergences, dissonances, and potential synergies between the work of Gramsci and Foucault. Ranging from philosophical reflections through the staging of virtual dialogues to exemplary case studies that demonstrate significant complementarities, this is an important, timely, and unique contribution to rounding out the literature on these two critical intellectuals and political activists.’ Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK ’Foucault and Gramsci is a much better alternative for our times, than the polemically overdetermined formulation Foucault or Gramsci. In reassessing Foucault and Gramsci and their respective legacies conjuncturally, this volume goes a long way in clarifying and elaborating the relationship between macropolitics and micropolitics, between a politics anchored in hegemony and post- and counter-hegemonic practices of resistance and speaking truth to power, between the world as irreducibly local and the world as necessarily global and relational.’ Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, University of California Irvine, USA; author of Edward Said: A Dictionary and History, The Human, and the World Between