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Alain Caillé is a lecturer in Sociology at the University Paris-Ouest La Défense where he co-leads the SOPHIAPOL (laboratory of sociology, philosophy and political anthropology), He is the founder and Director of the journal M.A.U.S.S. (anti-utilitarist movement in social science). He is the author of numerous books, including, published by La Découverte, La Quête de reconnaissance. Nouveau phénomène social total (2006), Anthropologie du don. Le tiers paradigme (Poche, 2007) and Théorie anti-utilitariste de l’action (2009).