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Loading... Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. Frankl
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Knowing that our district is paying big bucks for this is disappointing...it does not correct spelling erros and the Dictionary and Encyclopedia are decidedly American in their leanings. I used the word colour and it said ' There is no exact match to colour.' It gave a list of closely spelled words of which color was one...This I discovered is because the Dictionary is 'The American Heritage Children's Dictionary' and the encyclopedia is Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. If I were in America I would favour(not favor) this data base more, but I'm not and I don't!  toddphillips77 | Dec 4, 2009 |  Viktor Frankl was more than an Austrian born Holocaust survivor—he was a natural born philosopher equipped to both experience an event, and to stand outside of it, pulling meaning from within. Logotherapy, which is a sort of existentialist analysis, places the driving force of all human nature in finding meaning and purpose in life. Logotherapy concludes that:
 ) Soultalk | Nov 28, 2009 | I was required to read this for a philosophy 102 course, and did not expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. Frankl does an excellent job of weaving his philosophical points seamlessly into the story he tells, and the result is poignant and thought-provoking. I sold my copy back to my school bookstore at the end of the semester, and have been regretting it ever since. ( ) krysbrezinski | Nov 20, 2009 | MsPibel | Nov 6, 2009 | This story touched me more than any other Holocaust story I have read to date. No doubt this was in part due to the authors ability to stand outside the situation and observe and later relate his thoughts and emotions from the 3rd person. (  ) tony_landis | Sep 29, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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