Richard F. H. Polt (born 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at

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. He has written about and translated works by

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

. He and Gregory Fried edit the

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book series New Heidegger Research. Polt is also a

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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

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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

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(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)

References

External links

Xavier University pageAcademia pageTypewriter Revolution website
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