Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
In Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl discovered that the last human freedom is the choice of how to respond to what happens to you.
Freedom in the Final Space
Viktor Frankl's 1946 book is in two parts. The first is a spare, clinical account of his years in four Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz. The second introduces logotherapy, his framework for understanding the human drive to find meaning as the primary motivating force in life. Frankl argues that those who survived the camps were not the strongest or luckiest but those who retained a sense of purpose. A short book that carries an enormous weight.
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
"Viktor Frankl
Frankl dictated the first part of the book from memory in nine days after his liberation. He had lost nearly all his written manuscripts when he was arrested. His wife, parents, and brother died in the camps.
The book has sold over 16 million copies and has been named one of the ten most influential books in America. It remains required reading in psychology, philosophy, and management education programmes worldwide.