Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl, one of the leading psychiatrists of the 20th century, explains the principles of logotherapy, which he founded, accompanied by his experiences in a concentration camp during the Second World War, in Man's Search for Meaning, which has been translated into more than thirty foreign languages and sold more than 12 million copies worldwide.
Readers will notice that the concentration camp described by Frankl becomes a brilliant metaphor for understanding the world as a larger prison. Explaining the process that will help us discover "meaning" in the harsh conditions of existence, in the light of the ideas we are familiar with from Gasset, Heidegger and Sartre, Frankl asks, "What makes a human being a human being?" He also tries to answer the question...
"What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude towards life. We had to learn, and even more so to hopeless people, to teach that it does not really matter what we expect from life, that what really matters is what life expects from us. We must stop asking questions about the meaning of life, and instead find ourselves overwhelmed by life." We had to think as people who are questioned every hour of the day. Our response had to consist not in speech or meditation, but in right action and the right way of living. Life in the ultimate sense means finding the right solutions to problems and taking responsibility for fulfilling the tasks it sets for each individual.



Number of Pages: 176

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Okuyan Us Publications

First Print Year: 2009

Language Turkish