ABSTRACT
The definition of social love comes from putting the sociological imagination into action. It means giving a name to critical and community-building gestures that otherwise would not have a name. After identifying the common traits of these actions, the essay gives a stipulative definition of the concept of social love and explores its semantic dimensions: overabundance, care, universalism and recognition. Social love is finally recognised as a sensitising concept capable of empowering people’s actions to read the present and imagine new futures.
