Richard Polt

Richard F. H. Polt is a professor of philosophy at Xavier University. He has written about and translated works by Martin Heidegger. Polt is a typewriter enthusiast active on the Typosphere^[1] and former editor of the quarterly ETCetera publication about manual typewriters.

Works

As author

• The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's 'Contributions to Philosophy' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Heidegger: An Introduction (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)

Editor:

• 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

• Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, trans. by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010)
• Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000)
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997)

See also

• website maintained by Richard Polt retrieved 16:12(UTC) 27.10.2011
• 2008.07.23 R.Polt review from University Notre Dame - College of Arts and Letters 16:33 (UTC) 27.10.2011 [reviewed text : ISBN 978-0-8264-9796-3.]

References

1. ↑ http://writingball.blogspot.com

External links

• Profile
• transcript of interview by beyng.com (foot of page shows 2005/12/12) 16:20(UTC) 27.10.2011
• Richard Polt, "Anything But Human", opinion piece in the New York Times, Aug. 5, 2012.