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September 11, 2020

Rethinking Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning

At the heart of a widely read book about the Holocaust lies a morally questionable hypothesis.

After the works of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel, the Austrian Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most widely read Holocaust memoirs. Recently a collection of lectures Frankl gave in Vienna in 1946 has been published in English, and David Mikics takes the occasion to discuss some of the themes of Frankl’s work and thought:

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