Richard Polt

Richard Polt
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Fields	Philosophy
Thesis	Heidegger and the Place of Logic  (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Leszek Kolakowski
Website	xavier.academia.edu/RichardPolt

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 Rowman & Littlefield 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

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

External links

• Xavier University page
• Typewriter Revolution website