ABSTRACT
Until recently, Helmuth Plessner’s work has hardly played any substantial role in the philosophy of technology. The only two exceptions are the work of two Dutch philosophers of technology, Petran Kockelkoren (2003) and Jos de Mul (2003), who investigated Plessner’s concept of mediation and eccentricity, respectively, with regards to technology. While Kockelkoren founded the contemporary approach of technological mediation in Plessner’s anthropology, De Mul expanded Plessner’s concept of eccentricity into ‘poly-eccentricity,’ in order to do justice to the new ways of being-in-the-world made possible by information technologies.
