With his customary vision and unique form of attention, Rowan Williams... draws on the widest, carefully focussed, range of thinkers, each one illuminating the same dilemma – how to be together on a shared and bitterly contested planet? Rowan Williams has written a guide book and a plea. For anyone struggling with these issues, Solidarity should be indispensable.

Jacqueline Rose

A magisterial vision of true comradeship.

Slavoj Žižek author of Quantum History

A treasure trove of wisdom and insight. Its quiet optimism brings, in darkened days, a guiding light which gives the reader hope, despite the encircling gloom, that we might learn to live together with growing understanding, awareness, and a renewed sense of self.

A. N. Wilson author of Goethe: His Faustian Life

In this pioneering book, Williams argues for solidarity as a genuinely new ideal and something that cannot be reduced to some combination of compassion and communalism. It is at once a window on the human condition and justice in action. This is vintage Williams.

James B. Murphy, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, USA and author of How to Think Politically

Against cynics and opportunists, Rowan Williams compels us to reinvest in our shared existence in the name of a better world and a more just future.

Zahi Zalloua, Editor of The Comparatist and author of To Exist as a Problem, Being Black, Being Palestinian

In these torrid days of enmity, war and political delirium, Rowan Williams' meditation on how to work towards a world of solidarity, peace and truthfulness comes as a breath of fresh air. He shows us that solidarity is less a choice than a predicament and that it can be done badly or better, but never perfectly.His eloquent case for a life and thought of human and planetary solidarity calls us to renounce the comforts of innocence and cynicism and to risk submitting ourselves to a work of recognition that will leave us and our world strangely changed.

Howard Caygill, author of On Resistance