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An analysis of the Book of Job and its themes of meaning and suffering through the writings of the existential psychologist Viktor E. Frankl.
As a Holocaust survivor, neurologist and psychiatrist Dr Viktor E. Frankl had a personal stake in the effectiveness of his approach to psychology: he lived the suffering about which he wrote. With this new reading of the Book of Job, Lewis further develops Frankl's concept of Logotherapy as a literary hermeneutic, presenting readers with the opportunity to discover unique meanings and clarify their attitudes toward pain, guilt, and death.
Key issues emerge from the discussion of three different movements, which address Frankl's concept of the feeling of meaninglessness and his rejection of reductionism and nihilism, the dual nature of meaning, and his ideas of ultimate meaning and self-transcendence. Discovering meaning through participation with the text enables us to see that Job's final response can become a site for transcending suffering.
As a Holocaust survivor, neurologist and psychiatrist Dr Viktor E. Frankl had a personal stake in the effectiveness of his approach to psychology: he lived the suffering about which he wrote. With this new reading of the Book of Job, Lewis further develops Frankl's concept of Logotherapy as a literary hermeneutic, presenting readers with the opportunity to discover unique meanings and clarify their attitudes toward pain, guilt, and death.
Key issues emerge from the discussion of three different movements, which address Frankl's concept of the feeling of meaninglessness and his rejection of reductionism and nihilism, the dual nature of meaning, and his ideas of ultimate meaning and self-transcendence. Discovering meaning through participation with the text enables us to see that Job's final response can become a site for transcending suffering.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 147
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
27 August 2020
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780227177273
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy
Applying Victor Frankl's logotherapy to the book of Job, Marshall Lewis sees Job as one forced to make sense of what appears to be an absurd situation. A fresh reading of both Frankl and Job, Lewis, following Frankl, argues that while any experience can be made meaningful, in the end we are sometimes better off accepting a world in which suffering has no meaning, at least at present. A bold and ambitious reading that respects the text of Job as much as it does the texts of Frankl, the book uses Frankl to construct a new hermeneutic of reading.
— C. Fred Alford
— C. Fred Alford
List of Illustrations | vii
Foreword by Alexander Batthyány | ix
1 The Terrible Paradox of Suffering | 1
2 Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy | 22
3 Logotherapy and Hermeneutics | 39
4 Job and Frankl's Existential Vacuum | 57
5 Job and Frankl's Will to Meaning | 82
6 Job and Frankl's Self-Transcendence | 103
7 The Eyes of a Child | 119
Bibliography | 125
Foreword by Alexander Batthyány | ix
1 The Terrible Paradox of Suffering | 1
2 Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy | 22
3 Logotherapy and Hermeneutics | 39
4 Job and Frankl's Existential Vacuum | 57
5 Job and Frankl's Will to Meaning | 82
6 Job and Frankl's Self-Transcendence | 103
7 The Eyes of a Child | 119
Bibliography | 125