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Agapic Behavior as an Interpretive Key for Social Sciences

Castelgandolfo (Rome), 17-18 January 2011

The changes that have taken place in these last decades have imposed the need for further elaboration of social theory. In this context, sociological reflection has introduced the concept of agape, variously formulated, as a possible interpretation of social contexts that often escape traditional analytical models, up to now elaborated by scientific schools of thought.

For example, recent theories on recognition, such as that of Axel Honneth, successor of the School of Frankfurt , introduce the concept of love as a possible form of analysis for the processes of formation of subjectivity in late modernity. In the French tradition, the theme of agape is an element of Luc Boltanski’s reflection on contemporary society.

Authors of the stature of Baumann, Giddens, Hoechscild, Luhmann and Touraine have dedicated their work, implicitly and explicitly, to the theme of love as the concept capable of interpreting the bonds that characterize society, on which is based also Social-One’s reflection (www.social-one.org).

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