Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life Contributor(s): Pytell, Timothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782388303 ISBN-13: 9781782388302 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General - Psychology | History |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2015003131 |
Series: Making Sense of History |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 216 pages |
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Publisher Description: First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir Man's Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author's philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl's life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the "third Viennese school" amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pytell, Timothy: - Timothy Pytell is Chair of the History department at California State University, San Bernardino. He published an abridged version of this biography, titled Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos, in German in 2005. |