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Contents

Introduction

PART I HUMANS AND THEIR EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS. SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS IN THE PROPOSAL OF VIKTOR E. FRANKL

CHAPTER ONE

VIKTOR E. FRANKL AND HIS THEORY Viktor E. Frankl – biographical elements Frankl’s theory in isolation from the views of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler CHAPTER TWO

THE LOSS AND CRISIS OF MEANING. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Existential void The loss of meaning as a neurotic phenomenon Possible causes of the crisis of meaning Phenomenological attitude CHAPTER THREE

MEANING AS A WAY OUT OF EXISTENTIAL CRISIS The way out of existential crisis The concepts of meaning and values Conscience as an organ of meaning

CHAPTER FOUR

THE QUESTION OF MEANING AND THE QUESTIONER The question of meaning The possibility of finding the answer The principle of dialogue and the question of meaning The person as the subject – the carrier of meaning

PART II THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE FOR PEDAGOGY

CHAPTER FIVE

FROM QUESTIONS IN GENERAL TO THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING Principles of pedagogical thought and practice The philosophical foundations of pedagogy The interrelationship of questions of a pedagogical and psychotherapeutic nature An attempt to bring the positions closer together. A phenomenological perspective CHAPTER SIX

THE ROLE OF QUESTIONING IN HUMAN EXISTENCE The relationship between questions and answers The inductive path of cognition The pedagogical significance of the question of meaning The importance of conscience in the search for meaning The question of duty CHAPTER SEVEN

THE QUESTION OF MEANING The place of existential analysis The significance of the question of meaning A question of values The significance of conscience Responsibility as an answer CHAPTER EIGHT

THE QUESTIONER The personal self in pedagogy The concept of a person in existential analysis Humans in search of themselves A pedagogical attempt at synthesis CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY