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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
by Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger
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9781324096856
Overview
Overview
MacArthur Fellow and author of Plato at the Googleplex, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein returns with a book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to matter.
Drawing on biology, psychology, and philosophy, Goldstein argues that this longing is the source of both interpersonal and societal progress and conflict--the very crux of the human experience. The "mattering map," a concept that she first introduced in her bestselling novel The Mind-Body Problem, returns to illuminate how our need for significance shapes identity, relationships, and culture. Goldstein seamlessly merges rigorous scholarship with compelling storytelling, offering a framework to understand and harness this universal drive.
The Mattering Instinct is a profound exploration and a major intellectual contribution, decades in the making, of what it means to be human, challenging readers to reconsider their place in the world and their connections to others.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger
- ISBN: 9781324096856
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English