Abstract
Love is an almost invisible presence in the history of the social sciences. Of course, love has been the subject of research, especially in some important books of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. But sociology has been very much concerned with questions of justice, interests and powers, with everything that concerns the process of "rationalisation" of institutions and modern life, and has paid little attention to emotional, affective and amorous relationships. However, in recent years there has been a discovery of love in a positive and reconstructive way. Some studies elevate it to an experience that has a consistency of its own and is central to the understanding of social life and contemporary societies. In this sense, Gennaro Iorio's book, Sociologia do amor: ágape na vida social (2021), consummates the process of the emerging re-appropriation of love by providing an unprecedented theoretical and empirical synthesis. My aim is to critically present his theses as well as to expose the importance of his agenda for a sociology of love in dialogue with other fruitful fronts of contemporary sociology.