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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein argues that what distinguishes the human is the need to matter, and shows that need standing at the source both of our greatest achievements and of loneliness, extremism and polarisation.
W. W. Norton & Company · 2026 · English
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