Autore: Donati, Pierpaolo
Titolo: L'amore come relazione sociale
Periodico: Società mutamento politica (Online)
Anno: 2011 - Volume: 2 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 15 - Pagina finale: 35

Love is a polysemic concept which can be declined in thousand names, since it refers to different relationships. Love can be filial, fraternal, parental, spousal, simple friendship, social love, and so on. The diversity of its ways of being becomes clear and understandable, beyond the personal motivations of individuals, only if we observe the relational context and in particular the specific social relation that is at stake. Modern society has consigned love to the private spheres of intimate relationships (the couple and its surroundings), excluding it from ‘the public spheres’ such as the market and the state (considered ‘neutral’ in terms of the emotions and the morality pertaining to love). What we are witnessing today is the return of love in social spheres from which modernity has excluded it. The need for love seems to emerge in all spheres of human life, including the market and the political sphere. This sociological contribution highlights how in an after-modern society new cultural and structural forms of social life are emerging that make possible to act for love in new ways that go beyond the modern dichotomies (private vs. public love, irrational vs. rational). These ways differ according to different social spheres. The novelty comes from the ‘relational goods’, which are stimulated by specific criteria of relational differentiation and of relational reflexivity of love. In this scenario one can see an epochal shift in the semantics of love, that from ‘love as passion’ (romantic love) to ‘love as care of the human relationship’. The challenge is to understand how and where love can emerge as a new form of caring for relational goods.




SICI: 2038-3150(2011)2:4<15:LCRS>2.0.ZU;2-T
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