SOLIDARITY. THE FUTURE OF A GREAT IDEA

Heinz Bude

SOLIDARITY
The future of a great idea

Solidarity used to be a strong word. It fell into disrepute when everyone was made responsible for their own happiness and hardship. Today, society is more deeply divided than ever between rich and poor. Of course there is a social system that equalises the situation. But for this we need a new understanding of solidarity. We should not be content with alleviating material hardship, but should recognise ourselves as human beings in others. It is only through this free decision towards humanity that a society can come together again. Heinz Bude's reflections on existence in solidarity provide the answers to the social question of our time.

Heinz Bude, German sociologist and university lecturer. From 1992, he was a research associate at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and has been head of the „Society in the Federal Republic“ department there since 1997. Bude has held chairs at the Free University of Berlin and at the Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and in 1996 was Visiting Scholar on Centre for European Studies the Cornell University. He has been a professor of macrosociology at the University of Kassel since 2000, specialising in generational, exclusion and entrepreneurial research. Bude is one of the initiators of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union, which was published at the end of November 2016.

Moderation
Isolde Charim, Philosopher, author of the book

The book by Heinz Bude Solidarity. The future of a great idea was published in 2019 by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany.