Solidarity - Astra Taylor - Books - Verso Books - 9781839762604 - September 5, 2023
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Astra Taylor
Solidarity

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An incisive treatise on solidarity, the centuries-old idea that bridges care for the individual with care for the collective -- and why we can't survive without it.

Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe? Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea -- from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers, to twenty-first century social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter -- Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor trace the philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern world.

Looking forward, they argue that a clear understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained, and an awareness of how it has been suppressed, is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: right-wing backlash, irreversible climate damage, and widespread alienation, loneliness, and despair. Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor insist that solidarity is both a principle and a practice, one that must be cultivated and institutionalized, so that care for the common good becomes the central aim of politics and social life.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 5, 2023
ISBN13 9781839762604
Publishers Verso Books
Pages 256
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   566 g
Language English  

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