A highly anticipated, rediscovered collection from Viktor Frankl, published for the first time in the United States, exploring freedom, responsibility, and how we can draw meaning from the temporary nature of our lives From the bestselling author of The Library of Congress lists Published here for the first time in the United States, Whether you''re a devoted follower of Frankl''s work or a newcomer seeking to enrich your understanding of life''s purpose, this book promises a captivating journey that will leave you pondering its teachings long after you''ve turned the final page. <Just imagine what would happen, what life would look like, if there were no death. Imagine what it would be like if you could postpone anything and everything, if you could put it off for eternity. You wouldn''t have to do anything today or tomorrow. Everything could just as easily be done next week, next month, next year, in a decade, in 100 or 1,000 years. Only in the face of death, only under pressure from the finiteness, the temporal limitation of human existence, is there any point in going about our business, and not only in going about our business, but in experiencing life, and not only in experiencing life but also in loving someone, and even in enduring and surviving something that is inflicted on us.<...

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Viktor E. Frankl

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Foreword by Alexander Vesely-Frankl
Introduction by Dr. Tobias Esch
Note from the Publisher

ONE

Meaning and Responsibility in the Face of Transience
Conquering Transience

TWO

Ways of Finding Meaning
Man Alive—Viktor Frankl

THREE

The Crisis of Meaning and the Zeitgeist
Collective Neuroses

FOUR

Freedom and Responsibility
Existential Analysis and the Problems of Our Times

About Viktor E. Frankl
Further Works by Viktor E. Frankl
About the Viktor Frankl Institute