[Man's Search for Meaning] Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager (Österreichische Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 1)

Frankl, Viktor

Published by Verlag fur Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1946

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Signed by Viktor Frankl and inscribed to former owner Frau Lisl Kimont on October 10th, 1956. 130 pp. In German. Bound in publisher's original illustrated white wraps. Very Good with a small chip at the crown, light soiling to wraps with several edge-tears. Thin chip to top corner of rear cover lacking. Short tear to top edge of front cover and small chip to top corner mended from the verso, with similar wear extending into the early pages (including that with Frankl's inscription) and becoming decreasingly less until page 26. Short split to bottom gutter of front cover and first sheet. Pages tanned. A Holocaust memoir by a psychologist, better known in English as Man's Search for Meaning ; earlier called From Death-Camp to Existentialism. It has sold tens of millions of copies around the world and become one of the central texts through which we understand the Holocaust and trauma as a psychological phenomenon. An entirely different book of three lectures by the same author was published the same year titled .trotzdem ja zum Leben sagen, with this book's title as its subtitle, with which it is often confused.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Man's Search for Meaning] Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager (Österreichische Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 1)
• Publisher: Verlag fur Jugend und Volk, Vienna
• Publication Date: 1946
• Edition: First edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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