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. Polt is a
typewriter enthusiast active on the Typosphere[1][unreliable source?] 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 California Typewriter that features
Tom Hanks.
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)