The Virtue of Solidarity

Andrea Sangiovanni is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. From 2018-2020, he was Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Fiesole. His research on solidarity is supported by a 5-year European Research Council Consolidator Grant entitled "Solidarity in Europe." He is the author of Solidarity: Nature, Value and Grounds (Manchester, 2023), Humanity without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights (Harvard, 2017), and numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.Juri Viehoff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. Before that, he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and at the European University Institute in Florence. His work has been published in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Synthese, and European Journal ofPhilosophy among several others.

• Series Editor's ForewordContributorsIntroduction by Andrea Sangiovanni & Juri ViehoffChapter 1: Solidarity: Concept, Conceptions, and Contexts by Rainer Forst Chapter 2: Solidarity and the Just Society? by Philippe Van Parijs Chapter 3: Challenges to Solidarity by Andrea SangiovanniChapter 4: Solidarity as a Virtue of Equality by Avery Kolers Chapter 5: Sacrifice, Commitment, and the Function of Solidarity by Juri ViehoffChapter 6: Transforming Interdependence into Social Virtue: Solidarity in Catholic Social Thought by Meghan J. Clark Chapter 7: Pernicious Solidarities: Equity and Trust in Solidary Relations by Sally J. Scholz Chapter 8: Rethinking Solidarity through the Lens of Critical Social Ontology by Carol C. Gould Chapter 9: The Cost of Belonging: Universalism vs the Political Ideal of Solidarity by Véronique Munoz-Dardé Chapter 10: Solidarity: The Link Between Facts and Norms by Margaret Kohn Chapter 11: Transnational Solidarity: A Durkheimian View by Alexander Somek Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Tenths: Race, Class, and Solidarity by Tommie Shelby