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"[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual
history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and
historians will be grateful."-Library Journal, starred review 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. From the introduction: At the same time, Frankl's testimony,
second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin 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 Man's Search for Meaningin 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.
"[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual
history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and
historians will be grateful."-Library Journal, starred review 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. From the introduction: At the same time, Frankl's testimony,
second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin 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 Man's Search for Meaningin 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.
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