Man's Search for Meaning

by Frankl, Viktor E.
ISBN: 9780807014271
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
  • ISBN: 9780807014271
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.04 x 0.52
  • Number Of Pages: 192
  • Publication Year: 2006

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  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Margaret M. - 4 years 8 months ago

    Sometimes tough reading but his experiences are enough to make a person sit up and pay attention. We see man at his best and his worst during the war and especially at a concentration camp.

  • Essential reading

    Nelda M. - 5 years 8 months ago

    Thought provoking book. I couldn’t believe it was not required ready in my philosophy classes. Victor Frankl uses his incarceration in a concentration camp and translates that experience into his philosophy, logotherapy. This is a more introspective type of analysis rather than the more popular retrospective analysis. This is a must read for any student of philosophy.

  • Great read

    Reed N. - 5 years 10 months ago

    Very enlightening piece of philosophy expanded with real life stories from a unique period of time. The reader must extrapolate their own meaning from the stories told, very thought provoking.