Richard F. H. Polt is a professor of philosophy at

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enthusiast active on the Typosphere and a former editor of the quarterly ETCetera publication about manual typewriters. He is the author of three books, and he also contributed to the 2016 documentary ''

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Works

As author

* ''Time and Trauma: Thinking through Heidegger in the Thirties'' (London: Rowman ¶ Littlefield International Ltd., 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) 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)

References

External links

Profile
16:20(UTC) 27.10.2011 *Richard Polt
"Anything But Human"
opinion piece in the ''New York Times'', Aug. 5, 2012.
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 eviewed text : . German–English translators 1964 births Living people Heidegger scholars Xavier University people Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche Translators of Martin Heidegger {{academic-bio-stub