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Solidarity
The Work of Recognition
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Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared hopes and burdens that make solidarity possible. From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality...
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Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared hopes and burdens that make solidarity possible.
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Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared hopes and burdens that make solidarity possible.
From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality and conflict. And yet, as both a term and a practice, solidarity is tantalisingly slippery. We are encouraged to βshow solidarityβ, but how can we truly realise it?
As Rowan Williams argues in this impassioned book, Solidarity is not something fixed to be achieved, but a process of mutual recognition. From its origins in the French Revolution to the Nueva Solidaridad in Mexico City and the Solidarnosc movement in Poland, Williams traces solidarityβs myriad forms through its deep influence on Catholic social thought, its transformation in the hands of thinkers like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jan Patocka, and the creative struggle so central to the writings of Gillian Rose.
He reveals solidarity to be a constant exercise in self-scrutiny and dialogue in which we find that true recognition lies not in asserting that others are βjust like us,β but rather in affirming their claim to be βfully themselvesβ. It is in this work of recognition, this possibility of communion, that true hope can be found.
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ISBN: 9781399431514
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 520g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury, from 2002 to 2012 and until 2020 Master of Magdelene College at the University of Cambridge. He is contributing writer to The New Statesman.
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