A New Understanding of Human Beings’ Most Basic Desire

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.
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When Mattering Matters: Judaism and the Science of Significance

Both Goldstein and Jewish tradition recognize that the need to matter can become destructive. The person desperate for ...
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15 Questions With Rebecca N. Goldstein

Philosopher, novelist, and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca N. Goldstein has spent most of her life asking herself what she calls the “messier” questions of philosophy. With a new novel, “36 Arguments for the ...
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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

The stubborn desire to matter—to oneself, to loved ones, to God—explains much about human nature and its discontents, according to this incisive study. Philosopher Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem) ...