Solidarity

Arto Laitinen is professor of philosophy at University of Tampere.Anne Birgitta Pessi is professor in church and social studies at the University of Helsinki.

• 1. Solidarity—Theory and Practice. An Introduction, Arto Laitinen & Anne Birgitta Pessi2. Solidarity—Unpacking the Social Brain, Siegwart Lindenberg3. Collective Emotions as the ‘Glue’ of Group Solidarity, Mikko Salmela4. Empathy and our Relations to Others, Kristen Renwick Monroe5. Solidarity, Moral Recognition, and Communality, Simon Derpmann6. From Recognition to Solidarity: Universal Respect, Mutual Support,and Social Unity, Arto Laitinen7. Solidarity and Work: a Reassessment, Nicholas H. Smith8. Solidarity in Times of Crisis—Constitutional Evolutionand Europe, Hauke Brunkhorst9. National Social Models and Helping Others inthe European Union, Juho Saari & Anne Birgitta Pessi10. Solidarity and Motivations to Help Others: the Case of Finns, Arto Laitinen & Anne Birgitta Pessi11. Solidarity in a Nordic Welfare State: the Case of Finland, Heikki Hiilamo12. Distant Suffering, Volunteering, and Solidarity, Bente Nicolaysen

Arto Laitinen and Anne Birgitta Pessi have edited a unique collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of solidarity from a perspective defined by philosophical theories of recognition and emotions on the one hand, and social-scientific work on welfare and helping cultures and practices on the other hand. Authored by leading experts in the field, the volume represents precisely the kind of philosophy enriched by in-depth empirical studies–or empirical social science enriched by philosophical analysis–that we need in the complex social world we live in.