Considering the role of justice in our society and our lives, Michael Sandel reveals how an understanding of philosophy can help to make sense of politics, religion, morality - and our own convictions. Breaking down hotly contested issues, from abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, to patriotism, dissent and affirmative action, Sandel shows how the biggest questions in our civic life can be broken down and illuminated through reasoned debate. "Justice" promises to take readers - of all ages and political persuasions - on an exhilarating journey to confront today's political and moral controversies in a fresh and enlightening way.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Michael J. Sandel

History

Penguin??Books

A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the tyranny of the meritocracy and the resentments it produces.\nOur politics are fraught with rancor and resentment. Decades of rising inequality and stalled mobility have fueled a populist revolt against elites. But while the pundits focus on wages and jobs, they are missing a big part of the story: social esteem, and the broader moral dimensions of our current crisis.\nIn recent decades, mainstream politicians across the aisle--from Reagan to Obama--have offered a rhetoric of rising: everyone should be given an equal chance to get ahead. But the relentless focus on "equal opportunity" ignores the morally corrosive attitudes that even a fair meritocracy generates. Among the winners, it generates hubris; among the losers, humiliation. Meritocratic hubris reflects the tendency of winners to inhale too deeply of their success, to forget the luck and good fortune that helped them on their way. It diminishes our capacity to see ourselves as sharing a common fate and leaves little room for the solidarity that can arise when we reflect on the contingency of our talents and fortunes. More than a protest against immigrants, outsourcing, and stagnant wages, the populist complaint is about the tyranny of merit. And the complaint is justified.\nIn The Tyranny of Merit, a searing critique of contemporary public discourse, Michael J. Sandel, "the world's most relevant living philosopher" (Newsweek), diagnoses our political moment by seeking out its moral underpinnings. He highlights the hubris a meritocracy fosters among the winners and the indignities it inflicts on those left behind. And 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 more hospitable to a politics of the common good.

The Tyranny of Merit

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Product DescriptionShould we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society.In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?About the AuthorMichael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His legendary 'Justice' course is the first Harvard course made freely available online (www.JusticeHarvard.org) and on television. Hiss work has been translated into 15 languages and been the subject of television series in the U.K., the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and the Middle East. He has delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford and been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 2010, China Newsweek named him the "most influential foreign figure of the year" in China. Sandel was the 2009 BBC Reith Lecturer, and his most recent book Justice is an international bestseller.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets [Hardcover]

Business & Money

Business Culture

Allen Lane.

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life―medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be? In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society―and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

What Money Cant Buy

O descontentamento da democracia. Uma nova abordagem para tempos periculosos (Em Portugues do Brasil)

曾经，社会承诺人们“只要努力，就能成功”——如果每个人都能在同等机会下公平竞争，那么优胜者就应该获得奖赏。这是“美国梦”所代表的理想，也是大多数现代社会认同的优绩至上主义的伦理核心。 然而桑德尔认为，昔日激励无数人奋斗的“美国梦”，恰恰是造成今日美国社会分裂的根源，这种看似公平的成功观造成精英的傲慢和底层的怨恨，使成功者深信其成功是自身努力的结果，忘记帮助到他们的时机和运气，轻视比自己不幸和缺乏资格的人。这一现状阻断了社会流动性，助长阶级对立，侵蚀民主政治，蕞终导致民粹主义的兴起。 面对优绩的霸权，桑德尔希望每位公民思考：不同阶层的人，是否可以谋求一种共同利益？我们对彼此的责任是什么？他带领我们从以下三个方面进行思辨：教育的本质与目的、如何建立每一份工作的价值与尊严、重新反思成功的意义；同时，提醒我们保持谦卑、珍惜所有人的付出，积极讨论更有利于社会公正的举措，走向一种少些怨恨、多些包容的公共生活。 《精英的傲慢》应答当代社会的热议话题，剖析西方政治分歧的根源，启发每一个人的公民意识，本书是对这样一个问题的深刻反思：好的社会该如何定义成功？

The Tyranny of Merit (Chinese Edition)

CITIC Press Corporation

What Money Can't Buy [With CDROM] (Korean Edition)

Wiseberry

#1 bestseller for teens in Korea! Teenagers' version of JUSTICE: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel and Shin Hyeon Ju, illustrated by Jo Hae Jin. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Justice

Aisaeum/Tsai Fong Books

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