eBOOK
Man's Search For Meaning
The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
By: Viktor E Frankl
eBook | 9 December 2013 | Edition Number 1
At a Glance
eBook
$18.99
Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App
Read on
Android
eReader
Desktop
IOS
Windows
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience.
He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone.
Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph.
Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
About the Author
Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.
He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone.
Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph.
Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
About the Author
Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.
Industry Reviews
"Remarkable...It changed my life and became a part of all that I live and all that I teach."
Read on
Android
eReader
Desktop
IOS
Windows
ISBN: 9781448177684
ISBN-10: 1448177685
Published: 9th December 2013
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Edition Number: 1
You Can Find This eBook In
Other Editions and Formats
This product is categorised by
- Non-FictionSociology & Anthropology
- Non-FictionHistorySpecific Events & Topics in HistoryGeonocide & Ethnic CleansingThe Holocaust
- Non-FictionBiographies & True Stories True StoriesTrue Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
- Non-FictionWarfare & DefenceOther Warfare & Defence IssuesPrisoners of War
- Non-FictionHistoryMilitary HistorySecond World War
- Non-FictionHistoryGeneral & World History