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The website of the Helmuth Plessner Society (HPG) provides information on the life and work of the German philosopher and sociologist Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) as well as on philosophical anthropology.

Helmuth Plessner Society

The Helmuth Plessner Society understands itself as a forum for the newly awaken diversity of interests in Plessner’s thought, work and …

Helmuth Plessner

Helmuth Plessner was a child of Imperial Germany. Born in 1892 in Wiesbaden, son of a physician, he simultaneously studied since 1912 both zoology and …

Philosophical anthropology

Since the nineties of the twentieth century there is a renaissance of philosophical anthopology. The Helmuth Plessner Society explicitly …

Literature

Helmuth Plessner, Gesammelte Schriften in 10 Bänden
hrsg. v. Günther Dux, Odo Marquard und Elisabeth Ströker unter Mitwirkung v. Richard W. Schmidt, Angelika Wetterer …

Plessner’s legacy in Groningen

Plessner’s legacy is stored in the department of handwritings in the library of the Groningen University. …

Wiesbaden Helmuth Plessner award

Initiated by the Helmuth Plessner Society (HPG), the city of Wiesbaden in 2013 donated a prize in honor of Helmuth Plessner. It is endowed with 20,000 Euro and is …

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