Man's Search for Meaning

Name: Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl

by Viktor E. Frankl · 1946

🏷 Philosophy 📅 1946 📄 165pp

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A psychiatrist's account of surviving Nazi concentration camps—and the philosophy of meaning he developed as a result. One of the most influential books ever written.

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Viktor Frankl survived four Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. In Man's Search for Meaning, he describes what he observed about human psychology under the most extreme suffering imaginable, then builds a philosophy—logotherapy—from those observations.

Frankl's core finding: even in conditions of absolute deprivation, human beings retain one freedom—the freedom to choose their attitude…

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