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Astérion is an exclusively electronic journal, backed by the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. It is produced by the Centre of Studies in Rhetoric, Philosophy and History of Ideas, from Humanism to the Enlightenment (CERPHI) now hosted by the Institute of the History of Representations and Ideas in Modernity (IHRIM, CNRS UMR, 5317) and the pluridisciplinary joint research unit Triangle: Action, Discourses, Economic and Political Thought (CNRS, UMR 5206). Two axis of publication are favoured: the history of philosophy, sciences and sensitivities in the constitution of modernity and the history of political thought in Europe from the 16th to the 20th century.

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33 | 2025
Gramsci et la pensée populaire

Sens commun, idéologie, religion, folklore
Gramsci and Popular Thought. Common sense, ideology, religion, folklore

Before evaluating popular thought – whether positively or negatively – Gramsci stresses in his Prison Notebooks the need to forge the right analytical tools and relevant concepts to describe popular thought and, eventually, to criticise it. However, the concepts that, for Gramsci, may be viewed as different avatars of popular thought (common sense, ideology, religion, and folklore) are characterised by profound ambiguities from which the Italian philosopher’s intellectual work unfolds. This conceptual effort is aimed at avoiding the two pitfalls of miserabilism and populism, offering useful tools for anyone striving to better understand popular thought – even today. Gramsci’s Marxism requires him, both as a theorist and a political leader, to remain closely attentive to the complexity of social reality. He consistently emphasises the dialectical relationship between the Party’s cultural work and the popular worldviews at any given time.

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