The Relationship Between Common Sense and Thinking: Keeping with the Event in Education

This article investigates the relationship between common sense, thinking and the event through engaging with the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Gilles Deleuze: two prominent philosophers of our Western tradition that have problematized the notions of common sense and thinking from similar yet different angles. This article shows that Arendt espouses a two-fold understanding of common sense whilst Deleuze defines common sense as recognition. An exploration of joining the two understandings is undertaken and points towards a conception of thinking that stays close to the event.