Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific)

Events - 2007

15 February 2007 - Launch of the Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific)

You are cordially invited to the launch of the Gramsci Society(Asia-Pacific) at 5.30pm on Thursday 15 February in Food Rethought at the University of Wollongong.

Speaking at the launch will be the Honourable Marco Fedi who was recently elected by Italian-Australians to represent them in the Italian Parliament; Prof Guido Ligouri, Philosophy at the University of Calabria, the Vice-president of International Gramsci Society (Italia) and editor of Critica Marxista; and leading Gramscian scholar, Prof Alastair Davidson
 
Please RSVP to June Aspley by 12/2/07. june@uow.edu.au

Guido Liguori will present his paper, ‘Common Sense and Good Sense in Gramsci' at 12.30 in 19.1003 (Arts Building) at the University of Wollongong on Thursday 15 February.

His seminar paper re-examines these two key terms in Gramsci using the contemporary philological method of inquiry. Liguori demonstrates why and how Gramsci considers the “common sense” or “street wisdom” of the average person inadequate as an understanding of reality. Yet he further indicates the way in which this common sense conceals a “good sense” which is the basis for a liberatory philosophy.

Guido Liguori is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calabria, Vice-President of the Italian Branch of the International Gramsci Society and editor of Critica Marxista. He is a leading Gramsci scholar and author of several books and dozens of articles on Gramsci’s writings, including Sentieri Gramsciani (2006), Le Parole di Gramsci and Per un Lessico dei Quaderni del Carcere (2004).

He will be introduced by Professor Alastair Davidson.