Abstract

The article analyses the concept of common sense in Gramsci, fundamentally in its relation with politics and philosophy. Common sense is analysed in the ambivalence and heterogeneity with which Gramsci characterizes it, in order to think about the problem of its criticism and overcoming. Common sense and philosophy are part of the “ideological approach to the world”, but philosophy constitutes a coherent and critical record of the passivity inherent in common sense. The article dwells especially on the importance of politics as a moment of rupture between common sense and philosophy, fostering a reflection on the implications of this rupture, that is, the relationship between the elements that are preserved and the novelties that are produced.