Richard Polt | |
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Born | Richard F. H. Polt 1964 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Thesis | Heidegger and the Place of Logic (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Leszek Kolakowski |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy |
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. [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]