Name: The Tyranny of Merit: Can we Find the Common Good?
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Author: Michael J. Sandel
ISBN: 9781250800060

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The Tyranny of Merit: Can we Find the Common Good?

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michael J. Sandel

Publisher

Picador

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.1 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781250800060

Synopsis "The Tyranny of Merit: Can we Find the Common Good? "

A Times Literary Supplement's Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that you can make it if you try. The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led to deep distrust of both government and our fellow citizens--leaving us morally unprepared to face the profound challenges of our time. World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success--more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity, and more affirming of the dignity of work. The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful vision of a new politics of the common good.

Michael J. Sandel

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Michael J. Sandel (Minneapolis, 1953) holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Political Science at Harvard University and is a leading author in the field of political philosophy. His course on justice, taught there for two decades, is the university's most popular. Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, he is the author of numerous works. At Debate, he has published Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2011), What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (2013), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (2020), The Tyranny of Merit (2020), Democratic Discontent (2023), and Against Perfection (2024).

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