Talks & Education

Dries Josten: Divided and interconnected. Philosophy, anthropology, politics in Helmut Plessner

La Concorde, 9000 Gent Monday, 9 November 2026

Every concept of humanity is normative; that’s Helmuth Plessner’s philosophy in short. Plessner was a 20th-century philosopher-sociologist whose most productive period was during the interwar years.