American revolt against meritocracy. A review of Christopher Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy, William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, and Thomas Frank’s List

Authors

  • Łukasz Stankiewicz Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/ae.2016.13.11

Keywords:

Rebellion, meritocration

Abstract

American revolt against meritocracy. A review of Christopher Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy, William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way
to a Meaningful Life, and Thomas Frank’s Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People

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English translation: Anna Moroz-Darska

Modernisation of the journal's operations and translation into the English language of articles published in Ars Educandi in 2012-2017 were financed with funds from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a part of the task Science Promotion Activity (pl. DUN).

The task ‘The implementation of the editorial module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe – a system facilitating the editing and management of the academic journal Ars Educandi‘ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘The creation of a modern online version of the academic journal Ars Educandi through the implementation of the publication module on the platform of Uniwersyteckie Czasopisma Naukowe and the handling of international indexing databases’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

The task ‘Preparation of the English language version of the last 6 annual issues (2012-2017) of the academic journal Ars Educandi and their publication online’ was financed as a part of contract 661/P-DUN/2018 of 12.06.2018 from funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education designated for the promotion of science.

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Published

2016-12-01

How to Cite

Stankiewicz, Łukasz. (2016). American revolt against meritocracy. A review of Christopher Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy, William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, and Thomas Frank’s List. Ars Educandi, (13), 121–130. https://doi.org/10.26881/ae.2016.13.11

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Recenzje i sprawozdania