{"id":836,"date":"2015-02-03T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:24:04","slug":"gramsci-and-foucault-a-reassessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/gramsci-and-foucault-a-reassessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gramscifoucault\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image001.gif\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"227\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-835\" \/><\/a> On 3rd February 2015 Ashgate Publishing formally published my first book, a collection of essays entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gramscifoucault\">Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.<\/a>&#8221;  The first conversation with the publisher was in January 2011, so this book has taken four years to complete. I first started reading Foucault and Gramsci myself, however, in 1995, so you could say it has been twenty years in the making.  I wrote a call for chapters, distributed it widely, and chose a selection of the abstracts that were submitted to me to make a collection. Then they wrote their chapters and I organised each to be reviewed, (they rewrote them based on the reviews), formatted and edited them, indexed them, and wrote my own, too, and an introduction to the lot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/pdf\/SamplePages\/Gramsci-and-Foucault-A-Reassessment-Intro.pdf\">which you can read<\/a> &#8211; also available via a link on the publisher&#8217;s webpage. I was greatly honoured that one of biggest names in the field of critical theory today, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Gill_%28political_scientist%29\">Stephen Gill<\/a>, at the prestigious York University,  Toronto, Canada, agreed to write a Foreword for the book.  Two other big names wrote testimonials for me, for the back cover, too.  It&#8217;s a great first volume, and I am suitably proud!  It remains, nonetheless, just the start: there is much yet to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3rd February 2015 Ashgate Publishing formally published my first book, a collection of essays entitled, &#8220;Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.&#8221; The first conversation with the publisher was in January 2011, so this book has taken four years to complete. I first started reading Foucault and Gramsci myself, however, in 1995, so you could say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/gramsci-and-foucault-a-reassessment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}