This paper examines three important books of contemporary philosophy that thinks on solidarity: Richard Rorty?s Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1989), Axel Honneth?s The Struggle for Recognition (1992) and Jürgen Habermas? Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (1983). The central purpose of this article is to outline an alternative understanding of solidarity, drawn from the works of Theodor W. Adorno. It points out to thinking on what could be called the “aesthetic” construction of solidarity in the realms of society (interhuman), external nature (infra-human) and internal nature (intra-human). This way of thinking leads to assume that reason is constructed by mimesis, in a process that combines the different levels of solidarity...