The strongest evidence connected to your question suggests the following: 1. PREFACE TO THE 1992 EDITION THIS BOOK HAS …

The strongest evidence connected to your question suggests the following: 1. PREFACE TO THE 1992 EDITION THIS BOOK HAS NOW LIVED TO SEE nearly one hundred printings in English—in addition to having been published in twenty-one other languages. And the English editions alone have sold more than three million copies. These are the dry facts, and they may well be the reason why reporters of American newspapers and particularly of American TV stations more often than not start their interviews, after listing these facts, by exclaiming: “Dr. Frankl, your book has become a true bestseller—how do … 2. FOREWORD VIKTOR FRANKL’S Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the great books of our time. Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person’s life, that alone justiɹes reading it, rereading it, and ɹnding room for it on one’s shelves. This book has several such passages. It is ɹrst of all a book about survival. Like so many German and East European Jews who thought themselves secure in the 1930s, Frankl was cast into the Nazi network of concentration and extermination camps. Miraculous… 3. The Meaning of Life I doubt whether a doctor can answer this question in general terms. For the meaning of life diʃers from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the speciɹc meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: “Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?” There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good m… 4. void of any meaning. Not yet did I notice that an answer to this question with which I was wrestling so passionately was already in store for me, and that soon thereafter this answer would be given to me. This was the case when I had to surrender my clothes and in turn inherited the worn- out rags of an inmate who had already been sent to the gas chamber immediately after his arrival at the Auschwitz railway station. Instead of the many pages of my manuscript, I found in a pocket of the newly acquired coat one sing… This is an evidence-first extractive response. The next Codex stage will synthesize these passages into a deeper interpretive answer while retaining the same citations.