Autore: Brigati, Roberto
Titolo: Le età del merito. Storia critica di una categoria etico-politica
Periodico: Politica & società
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 3 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 421 - Pagina finale: 446

Far from being essential, timeless qualities, merit and desert have changed their meaningsin history. In early modern Europe's value system, "merit" was an inherent featureattached to individuals in view of social status and birth, independently of what theymight have done. Fatalistic attitudes, involving Luck (Fortuna), were connected to thisnotion. The fall of the ancien régime brought a new meaning of "merit", now connectedto individual talents, effort and deeds. In this form, the category was taken up by thelabour ideology and became the bedrock for the social ideal which was later called meritocracy.Today, in spite of a ubiquitous rhetoric, merit appears to be declining again. Peopleseem to have detected the hollowness of meritocratic discourse and to be trying toensure their positions by other means, remarkably reminiscent of early modern attitudes.


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SICI: 2240-7901(2012)3:3<421:LEDMSC>2.0.ZU;2-Z
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