Richard Polt

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Richard Polt
Alma mater University of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy
Thesis Heidegger and the Place of Logic  (1991)
Doctoral advisor Leszek Kolakowski
Website xavier.academia.edu/RichardPolt
site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/

Richard F. H. Polt is a 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 book series New Heidegger Research. [1]

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Polt is also a typewriter enthusiast. He has written a book on typewriters in the 21st century, maintains a website on typewriters, [2] and is a former editor of ETCetera, a quarterly publication for typewriter collectors. [3] He appears in the 2016 documentary California Typewriter .

Works

As author

As editor and co-editor

As translator and co-translator

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References

  1. "New Heidegger Research | Rowman & Littlefield". rowman.com. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  2. "The Classic Typewriter Page : All About Typewriters". site.xavier.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  3. "Archive Index Only – ETCetera". etconline.org. Retrieved 2024-05-13.