Richard Polt


Richard F. H. Polt is an American professor of philosophy at Xavier [University (Cincinnati)|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

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''