The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
In The Tyranny of Merit, Michael J. Sandel explores the meaning and consequences of merit, achievement, and deservingness. The book asks how a society focused on individual success affects shared civic life—and what those assumptions may mean for the common good.
About This Book
Michael J. Sandel examines the idea of merit and the social meaning attached to achievement.
The book considers how beliefs about deservingness can shape public life and attitudes toward success and failure.
At its center is a question about the common good and how it should be understood in a society organized around merit.
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