Dagmar Wilhelm--see here her video conversation on solidarity with Darian Meacham-- has been consulting her students’ views on the same subject.
Habermas likes to regard 'national solidarity' based on 'national identity' as a stage in the development of solidarity. It is just a step towards the mutual beneficence and trust that is based, not on imagined histories, but on actual mutual participation in political deliberation and decision-ma
