7. Common Sense in Gramsci’s and Moscovici’s Writings: Inspiration, Subversion and Revolution in Sociopolitical and Scientific Fields

The article entitled Common sense in Gramsci’s and Moscovici’s writings: inspiration, subversion and revolution in sociopolitical and scientific fields represents part of the results of theoretical investigations undertaken for my doctoral thesis, which also had the objectives of investigating convergences between Gramsci’s and Moscovici’s theories and trying to articulate, through these convergences, an educational proposal for praxis in order to help train people to become proactive, politically-minded members of their community who take action to improve living conditions for all. I undertook theoretical research using both authors’ key books on the development of the theory, such as The Prison Notebooks (Gramsci 1975) and Psychoanalysis: its Image and its Public (Moscovici 1979), besides other sources by scholars who have studied the work of these authors. The methodological path I followed had approximations to paradigms that use change and historicity as guiding elements; therefore, I sought support from critical theory and the Gramscian philosophy of praxis to back up my data analysis. Results suggest that the main theoretical convergence between the authors is related to their approach to common sense, from which emerged subcategories that gave better visibility to such approximations between them. In this chapter I highlight the fecundity of the studies carried out so far and indicate that there is much more to be explored and deepened.