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DeutschRichard Polt
Richard Polt | |
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| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Philosophy |
| Thesis | Heidegger and the Place of Logic (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leszek Kolakowski |
| Website | xavier |
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.[1]
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
[edit]As 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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