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The starting point of this paper is represented by the research carried out by the study group of Social-One (Iorio, 2014; 2015; Araújo et al., 2015; Araújo et al., 2016; Martins, Cataldi, 2016), which recognised a public dimension and not only the intimate and personal dimension of love in today’s society. Taking

This paper is a dialogue with Alain Caillè, founder and animator of the Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social
Sciences on the topic of gift, love and anti-utilitarian actions. The interview is divided in three parts: the first one is about
Convivialism, as common denominator of promoting the art of living together; The second part is about the commitment of
social sciences; the third part is aimed to clarify the existing links among the concepts of gift, recognition and agape.

The starting point of this paper is represented by the studies carried out by the study group of Social-One (Iorio, 2014; 2015; Araújo et al., 2015; Araújo et al., 2016; Martins and Cataldi, 2016), which recognized a public dimension and not only intimate and personal dimension of love in today's society. Taking as a reference point the work of Luc Boltanski, “L’amour et la justice comme competences” (1990), the research of the study group has proposed to widen the circle of sharing to go beyond the input from classic sociologists with a new conceptual category linked to agape.