--- product_id: 1300845 title: "Man's Search for Meaning" price: "₱4844" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1300845-mans-search-for-meaning store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Man's Search for Meaning **Price:** ₱4844 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Man's Search for Meaning - **How much does it cost?** ₱4844 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1300845-mans-search-for-meaning) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man's Search for Meaning --at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Yet rather than "a tale concerned with the great horrors," Frankl focuses in on the "hard fight for existence" waged by "the great army of unknown and unrecorded." Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that the "the will to meaning" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy, and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living. Review: Must Read - Everyone should read this. It is excellent. Review: Remaining fully alive to incredibly triumph over devastating evil! - How can one triumph over tremendous and bitter evils? How can someone even survive the ongoing evil faced head-on in a Nazi concentration camp--in facing the violence, the inhumanity and the injustice, where to all appearances, sin seems to have taken the upper hand? How does one even find hope when caught up in the clutch of such crushing evil that can so easily cause others to throw up their hands in helpless defeat? Victor Frankl not only tells us, but shows us how it's done from first-had experience--from finding meaning in one's existence and those around you--from finding dignity in your life regardless of circumstances--from exercising that which stands seemingly above all human characteristics: human freedom, which gives us the ability to continue to steer our choices and direct our lives. Yes, he writes, wrote: "We who have lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's own way." Deprived of his own freedom, paradoxically, he kept his freedom. He continued his decision making. Revealing a profound insight into the reality of our existence, Frankl said, "Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment." He nonetheless exercised this unassailable supreme human ability while imprisoned under the most horrendous conditions. Accordingly, he maintained to always have the benefit of "the last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance, to choose one's own way." He acknowledges the immeasurable greatness of the human spirit, unyielding under the grip of overwhelming evil--insistent on the import and value of right resolve, in spite of all odds--on being fully who we are, regardless of fully inhumane treatment--and remaining fully alive. The book is a study in psychology, all to itself! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #108,216 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #137 in Medical Psychotherapy TA & NLP #160 in Jewish Holocaust History #164 in Popular Psychology Psychotherapy | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 355 Reviews | ## Images ![Man's Search for Meaning - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71m4VluSn9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must Read *by L***J on April 1, 2026* Everyone should read this. It is excellent. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Remaining fully alive to incredibly triumph over devastating evil! *by B***N on October 27, 2010* How can one triumph over tremendous and bitter evils? How can someone even survive the ongoing evil faced head-on in a Nazi concentration camp--in facing the violence, the inhumanity and the injustice, where to all appearances, sin seems to have taken the upper hand? How does one even find hope when caught up in the clutch of such crushing evil that can so easily cause others to throw up their hands in helpless defeat? Victor Frankl not only tells us, but shows us how it's done from first-had experience--from finding meaning in one's existence and those around you--from finding dignity in your life regardless of circumstances--from exercising that which stands seemingly above all human characteristics: human freedom, which gives us the ability to continue to steer our choices and direct our lives. Yes, he writes, wrote: "We who have lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's own way." Deprived of his own freedom, paradoxically, he kept his freedom. He continued his decision making. Revealing a profound insight into the reality of our existence, Frankl said, "Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment." He nonetheless exercised this unassailable supreme human ability while imprisoned under the most horrendous conditions. Accordingly, he maintained to always have the benefit of "the last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance, to choose one's own way." He acknowledges the immeasurable greatness of the human spirit, unyielding under the grip of overwhelming evil--insistent on the import and value of right resolve, in spite of all odds--on being fully who we are, regardless of fully inhumane treatment--and remaining fully alive. The book is a study in psychology, all to itself! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bad for Business *by D***T on July 4, 2006* Victor Frankl was an existentialist. The existentialists went out of fashion in psychiatry because they were equated with a `be glad you're neurotic" approach, and denial of the reality of mental illness. This was bad for the psychiatry business, although several existentialists made a living as psychiatrists. The book is in two halves; the first describes his concentration camp experiences, the second his method of psychotherapy (or rather his philosophy of life) which he called logotherapy. The first half is not irrelevant to the second half. Some psychologists, such as Abraham Maslow, with his hierarchy of needs, suggest that issues like search for meaning are just icing on the cake of life. They become irrelevant when the chips are down. A starving man does not worry about the state of world politics. Frankl's experiences taught him that the will to go on living comes from some kind of inner force that is not just an animal survival instinct. Is logotherapy really a treatment method, or should we consider this book as self-help? I think it is more useful as a book for patients than as a manual for therapists, although I hope it doesn't persuade them to throw away their Prozac. It is full of illuminating insights and I found myself underlining many passages. Some of the actual techniques described, such as negative practice for obsessive rituals are more akin to behavior therapy than insight-oriented psychotherapy. He describes several one-shot cures brought about by philosophical utterances which may have worked for him but are in the category of "don't try this at home" for less charismatic practitioners. His ideas about anhedonia and boredom are good. ## Frequently Bought Together - Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1300845-mans-search-for-meaning](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1300845-mans-search-for-meaning) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-05-26*