Richard Polt

Richard Polt
Born
Richard F. H. Polt

1964 (age 61–62)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
ThesisHeidegger and the Place of Logic (1991)
Leszek Kolakowski
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
InstitutionsXavier University

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 Bloomsbury Publishing 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. He founded Loose Dog Press, a publishing house devoted to books of interest to typewriter users and collectors.

Polt also runs a literary society devoted to American writer Harry Stephen Keeler.

Works

As author

As editor and co-editor

As translator and co-translator

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Richard Polt". Xavier University.
  2. ↑ url=https://www.xavier.edu/philosophy-department/documents/poltcvoct2023.pdf
  3. ↑ "New Heidegger Research". Bloomsbury Publishing.
  4. ↑ "The Classic Typewriter Page: All About Typewriters". site.xavier.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Archive Index Only". ETCetera. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  6. ↑ "Loose Dog Press". Loose Dog Press. Retrieved 2026-06-24.
  7. ↑ "Harry Stephen Keeler Society". site.xavier.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-29.