Richard Polt
Richard F. H. Polt is an American professor of philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has written about and translated works by Martin Heidegger. He and Gregory Fried edit the Bloomsbury Publishing book series New Heidegger Research.
Polt is also a typewriter enthusiast. He has written a book on typewriters in the twenty-first century, maintains a website on typewriters, and is a former editor of ETCetera, The Journal of The Typewriter Collectors’ Association. He appears in the 2016 documentary California Typewriter.
Polt also runs a literary society devoted to American writer Harry Stephen Keeler.
Works
As author
Heidegger on Presence Time and Trauma: Thinking through Heidegger in the Thirties The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy" Heidegger: An Introduction.As editor and co-editor
- Richard Polt and Jon Wittrock, The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Axial Echoes in Global Space
- Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, After Heidegger?
- Gregory Fried and Richard Polt : Martin Heidegger, Nature, History, State: 1933-1934, with essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter E. Gordon, Marion Heinz, Theodore Kisiel, and Slavoj Žižek Heidegger's "Being and Time": Critical Essays
- Richard Polt and Gregory Fried, ''A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" ''
As translator and co-translator
- Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt
- Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt
- Friedrich Nietzsche, ''Twilight of the Idols''