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Cover -- Half-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Prologue: Funeral, 1993 -- Maps -- Part One: Choosing Ancestors -- 1. Small-Town Kid -- 2. A Riddle -- 3. Stories of Forebears -- Part Two: Departures -- 4. The Open Road -- 5. Pilgrimage -- 6. Time of Turmoil -- Part Three: The Secret Army -- 7. Underground -- 8. Terrorist Suspect -- 9. Martyrdom -- Part Four: Everywhere Walls -- 10. Good-Doers -- 11. Serving Time -- 12. Wandering through Ruins -- Part Five: Armenia at Last -- 13. Bitter Bread -- 14. "Call Me Avo" -- 15. Discipline Problems -- Part Six: Other Mountains -- 16. A Proper Army -- 17. Come in, Zero-Zero -- 18. Leave Like Water -- Epilogue: The View from Yeraplur -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments.

Whatever common sense may be, it includes much else besides practically confirmed truisms. InCommon Sense: A Political History, Sophia Rosenfeld describes the backstories of modern common sense, locating its origins in debates among small groups of professors, publishers and pamphleteers in several cities on both sides of the Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions. From the eighteenth century on, champions and enemies of the rising 'middling' classes have brandished common sense as an 'unspectacular instrument' of non-coercive regulation, to promote or oppose the sovereignty of 'the people' by hitching their conflicting claims to an unassailable guarantor of truth. After taking a beating in the first decades of the twentieth century, common sense has been resuscitated and reconstituted, to sell all manner of goods and policies. As a description of the roles that common sense has played in the modern phenomenon of populism, Rosenfeld's book casts doubt on Hannah Arendt's claim that common sense is what true democracy creates. At the same time,Common Sense: A Political Historycorroborates and fills out Antonio Gramsci's account of good sense and politics.