Per un’ Analisi Critica del Concetto di Meritocrazia come Ideologia Neo-liberista

This article examines a particular aspect of the linguistic and cultural neoliberal hegemony, namely the use of the term meritocracy , as a concept related to the idea of improving the degree of justice in society. The view expressed here is that in a more general process ( post-democratic ), this term has an ideological nature, in the sense that it actually functions as a mask of inequality. Therefore, the debate in Italy is reconstructed, considering some mainstream texts, but also some interventions that deconstruct the ideology.