Richard F. H. Polt is a 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 book series New Heidegger Research.[1]
Polt is also a
typewriter enthusiast. He has written a book on typewriters in the 21st century, maintains a website on typewriters,[2] and is a former editor of ETCetera, a quarterly publication for typewriter collectors.[3] He appears in the 2016 documentary California Typewriter.
Works
As author
Time and Trauma: Thinking through Heidegger in the Thirties (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019)
The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century (Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 2015)
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy" (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)
Heidegger: An Introduction (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
As editor and co-editor
Richard Polt and Jon Wittrock (eds.), The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Axial Echoes in Global Space (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018)
Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (eds.), After Heidegger? (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017)
Richard Polt and Gregory Fried (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)
As translator and co-translator
Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010)
Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000; 2nd edition, 2014)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997)