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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl

4.26 AVERAGE

puruuu's review against another edition

5.0
challenging dark emotional slow-paced
I find it very close to existentialism, deeply respect and appreciate the details with which it’s written.

j____p____'s review against another edition

5.0
Brutal, clear-eyed, quietly hopeful.

antzalan's review against another edition

4.25
challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

maryamweb's review against another edition

5.0
dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

iamnotdiana's review against another edition

5.0
sad medium-paced

bookiebee's review against another edition

5.0
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

decotta's review against another edition

4.75
hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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abejimz's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

mytime2025's review against another edition

3.0
1st read in high school had more of an impact on me than 2nd read some 35+ years later. Although my heart breaks for his experience in the 1st section of the book, the 2nd part w/ regards to “Logo-therapy” was quite dry. There were many noteworthy observances regarding the purpose/meaning of life.
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andreu6's review against another edition

3.5
dark
I enjoy philosophical and psychological reflections, something that this book has in abundance. In Aristotelian philosophy, knowledge can be achieved through theoria, praxis, or poiesis, and I believe that all three are really important for self-realisation, so I was happy to discover that those three categories exactly match the three paths to meaning mentioned in the book.
It is surprising, to say the least, how much suffering a human is able to endure (a man, in the book's terminology, though I dislike very much the use of the word man when actually refering to any human being or humanity as a whole). Despite all that suffering in his life, the author truly embodies the quote he gives from Nietzsche: "Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how".