{"id":314,"date":"2016-08-27T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=314"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","slug":"an-encounter-between-gramsci-marx-foucault-and-bergson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/an-encounter-between-gramsci-marx-foucault-and-bergson\/","title":{"rendered":"An encounter between Gramsci, Marx, Foucault and Bergson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UniversityDavid presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy<\/a>, at the University of Bristol, Thursday, 25th August 2016.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>:\u00a0Cultural Political Economy (CPE) as readily acknowledges the debt of Gramscianism to Marx as Gramsci did himself. Contrastingly, the debt owed by much of 20th<\/sup> century French philosophy \u2013 not least Foucault himself \u2013 to Bergson, is little acknowledged \u2013 including by Foucault – or studied, and this debt, and Bergson\u2019s ideas, seem yet to appear in the CPE literature. The focus upon multiplicity Foucault drew most markedly from Bergson\u2019s work, however, stemmed from the latter\u2019s broader metaphysical stance of a monism comprised of an indivisible dualism, which, because continuously in the process of creation, exists in permanent creative, emergent novelty beyond any causal closure. These foundational \u2013 and radical – ideas had a profound effect upon the next century of French philosophical thought. This paper will argue that they indeed also promise a metaphysical grounding which CPE arguably currently lacks, and could benefit from.\u00a0\u00a0 In an encounter, then, between Gramsci, Marx, Foucault and Bergson, both Marx and Gramsci become set in a temporal frame that at once discards historical inevitability and opens up new vistas of possibility \u2013 bringing the \u2018when\u2019 to join the \u2018how\u2019 and the \u2018why questions\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Kreps, D. (2016) \u2018An encounter between Gramsci, Marx, Foucault and Bergson\u2019 at 2nd International Conference on Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy<\/em>\u00a0Bristol University, Bristol, UK, 25th-26th August 2016.<\/p>\n