Snir, Itay

"Not Just One Common Sense": Gramsci's Common Sense and Laclau and Mouffe's Radical Democratic Politics

is part of Costellations , 23 , 2 , June 2016 , pp. 269 - 280
This article focuses on the concept of common sense in order to shed new light on the radical and pluralist democracy developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. I will argue that their move via Antonio Gramsci away from both Marxism and traditional liberal democracy cannot be fully understood without reference to the sole common sense plays in it. Focusing on common sense reveals crucial aspects of the relations between intellectuals and ordinary people in Laclau and Mouffe's political theory and how they deal with the problems of embedded hierarchy, characteristic of modern political thought.
Language eng
Names [author] Snir, Itay
Subjects
Senso Comune
Mouffe, Chantal
Laclau, Ernest
Politica, Teoria Della
Common sense
Mouffe, Chantal
Laclau, Ernest
Political theory