Wolfgang H. Pleger

Wolfgang H. Pleger (born March 28, 1944 in Demmin , Western Pomerania) is a German philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau .

Pleger made important contributions to Plato / Socrates research and wrote an introduction to the philosophy of the pre-Socratics , which has now become a standard work. In addition, he published works on Schleiermacher , Hegel and Heraklit as well as on philosophical anthropology. His ethical, political-philosophical and pedagogical positions are clearly influenced by Hegel, Marx and Sartre . In the field of the philosophy of religion he has dealt critically with the church fathers Augustine and Tertullian .

Pleger is a student of the Münster philosopher and Kant expert Friedrich Kaulbach .

Works

• Contradiction-Identity-Practice: Arguments on a Dialectical Theory of Action. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1986.
• The logos of things. A study on Heraclitus . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, New York 1987.
• Schleiermacher's philosophy. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1988.
• Difference and Identity: The Transformation of Philosophical Anthropology in the 20th Century. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988.
• The pre-Socratics. Metzler, Stuttgart 1991.
• Socrates. The beginning of the philosophical dialogue. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998.
• Plato. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang H. Pleger in the catalog of the German National Library