FROM DEATH-CAMP TO EXISTENTIALISM: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy [Man's Search for Meaning]

The Meaning Of Human Existence

FROM DEATH-CAMP TO EXISTENTIALISM: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy [Man's Search for Meaning]

By Viktor E. Frankl

(1959)

Rare first English-language edition of Frankl's classic presentation of logotherapy, now best known by its later title, MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING.

Near fine in a very good jacket.

Price: $2,200.00

FROM DEATH-CAMP TO EXISTENTIALISM: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy [Man's Search for Meaning]

"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, to choose one's own way."

Originally published in German in 1946, FROM DEATH-CAMP TO EXISTENTIALISM appeared in English translation only at the end of the 1950s. Frankl's book, one of the most influential texts of the 20th century and one of the most widely read personal narratives of the Holocaust, argues for the primacy of meaning as the animating drive in human psychology, identifying the search for meaning as the only adequate response to suffering, death, and existential frustration. Indeed, in the book is best known in English by its title in later editions: MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING. This first English edition is scarce, especially in collectible condition. A handsome first edition of the book the Library of Congress called one of "the ten most influential books in the United States."

The Object

First printing. Boston: Beacon Press, (1959). 8'' x 5.25''. Original red cloth. In original unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket. 111, [1] pages. Translated by Ilse Lasch. Preface by Gordon W. Allport. Spine a bit sunned, chip at head. Minor edgewear, rubbing. Book has a bit of shelfwear at the foot of the spine. Else clear, bright, and sharp.

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