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The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another.

Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone. Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the disease has spread precisely because we aren't autonomous individuals disconnected from each other, but rather all belong to one great body of humanity. The pain inflicted by the pandemic is far from equally distributed. Yet it reveals ever more clearly how much we all depend on one another, and how urgently necessary it is for us to bear one another's burdens.

It's a good time, then, to talk about solidarity. The more so because it's a theme that's also raised by this year's other major development, the international protests for racial justice following George Floyd's death. The protests, too, raised the question of solidarity in guilt, even guilt across generations. By taking up our common guilt with all humanity, we come into solidarity with the one who bears

Plough Quarterly No. 25 Solidarity

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    A Paperback / softback by James Gurney, Emmanuel Katongole, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/09/2020
      ISBN13: 9780874863543, 978-0874863543
      ISBN10: 0874863546

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another.

      Whatever else they do, pandemics show us       we are not alone. Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the disease has spread precisely because we aren't autonomous individuals disconnected from each other, but rather all belong to one great body of humanity. The pain inflicted by the pandemic is far from equally distributed. Yet it reveals ever more clearly how much we all depend on one another, and how urgently necessary it is for us to bear one another's burdens.

      It's a good time, then, to talk about solidarity.       The more so because it's a theme that's also raised by this year's other major development, the international protests for racial justice following George Floyd's death. The protests, too, raised the question of solidarity in guilt, even guilt across generations. By taking up our common guilt with all humanity, we come into solidarity with the one who bears

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