Richard F. H. Polt (born 1964) 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 Rowman & Littlefield book series New Heidegger Research.[1]
Richard Polt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard F. H. Polt 1964 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Heidegger and the Place of Logic (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leszek Kolakowski |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
Polt is also a typewriter enthusiast. He has written a book on typewriters in the twenty-first century, maintains a website on typewriters,[2] and is a former editor of ETCetera, The Journal of The Typewriter Collectors’ Association.[3] He appears in the 2016 documentary California Typewriter.
Polt also runs a literary society devoted to American writer Harry Stephen Keeler.[4]
Works
editAs author
edit- 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
edit- 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)
- Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (eds. and trans.): Martin Heidegger, Nature, History, State: 1933-1934, with essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter E. Gordon, Marion Heinz, Theodore Kisiel, and Slavoj Žižek (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)
- Heidegger's "Being and Time": Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
- 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
edit- 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)
References
edit- ^ "New Heidegger Research". Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "The Classic Typewriter Page: All About Typewriters". site.xavier.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Archive Index Only". ETCetera. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Harry Stephen Keeler Society". site.xavier.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
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