{"product_id":"viktor-frankls-search-for-meaning-timothy-pytell-9781789208078","title":"Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e★\"[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.\"-\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir \u003cem\u003eMan's Search for Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFrom the introduction: \u003cbr\u003e At the same time, Frankl's testimony, second only to the \u003c\/em\u003eDiary of Anne Frank\u003cem\u003ein popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell \u003c\/em\u003eMan's Search for Meaning\u003cem\u003ein the gift shop.... During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankl's survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Pytell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789208076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789208078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Timothy Pytell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991453303039,"sku":"9781789208078","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d36fc82-4253-4b63-8931-3ef086a1bcfc.jpg?v=1683310386","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/viktor-frankls-search-for-meaning-timothy-pytell-9781789208078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}