by Michael J. Sandel · PENGUIN BOOKS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141991177
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In 'The Tyranny of Merit', Michael J. Sandel, the acclaimed author of 'Justice', explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? In an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate, 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 judgment 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.
Michael Joseph Sandel is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the 2011 "most influential foreign figure of the year".
