Psychology

The Lonely Century

Noreena Hertz · 2020

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1,556·Proven

6 yrs

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Why it endured

Noreena Hertz's diagnosis of modern loneliness — a crisis amplified by technology, hyper-individualism, and the collapse of community. Both an analysis and a call to redesign our social world.

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Chris WilliamsonHost of Modern Wisdom podcast

A social exploration of loneliness as a modern epidemic that should be as mainstream as sleep science—this is the book that explains why loneliness the way Why We Sleep was for sleep science.

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