The long-unpublished lectures of Viktor Frankl propose a search for the meaning of life that goes beyond any optimistic or pessimistic approaches.

The existence of this book is a small miracle. The lectures it contains were given by Viktor Frankl in 1946, just nine months after his liberation from the concentration camp where he had witnessed the specter of death. Frankl's lectures were published at that time by a small German publisher. However, the edition was sold out and largely forgotten, until the same publisher recently retrieved it from their archives.

During the years of Nazi rule in Austria, the audience for these lectures did not have the opportunity to come into contact with Frankl's views, drawing ethical and spiritual stimuli from them. Among the millions of victims of the Holocaust were Frankl's parents and his pregnant wife. However, despite these personal tragedies and his deep grief for the loss of his loved ones, Frankl managed to integrate everything that had happened to him and his loved ones into a worldview of affirmation of life, which is reflected both in his most famous book, Man's Search for Meaning, and in these lectures, providing comfort and inspiration for millions of readers. From the introduction by Daniel Goleman.