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
- 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 [Gordon (historian)|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''