August 2012
Richard F. H. Polt
Dept. of Philosophy
Xavier University
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207-4443
513-745-3274
fax: 513-745-3065
polt@xavier.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ph.D., Committee on Social Thought,
University of Chicago, 1991
Dissertation: “Heidegger and the Place of Logic”;
Leszek Kolakowski, director
M.A., Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 1989
B.A. with high honors, Philosophy, University of California at
Berkeley, 1985
Publications
Monographs
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy.”
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Chinese translation: Shanghai
VI Horae Publishers, 2009.
Heidegger: An
Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press and London: UCL
Press, 1999. (Currently published in the UK by Routledge.)
Edited volumes
Heidegger’s
“Being and Time”: Critical Essays. Edited with an introduction by
Richard Polt. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
A Companion to
Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics.” Edited with an
introduction by Richard Polt and Gregory Fried. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2001.
Journal articles
“Meaning,
Excess, and Event.” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 1
(2011): 26-53.
“The
Burning Cup: Or, Im Anfang war die Tat.” International Journal of
Žižek Studies 1:4 (December 2007).
“Beyond
Struggle and Power: Heidegger’s Secret Resistance.” Interpretation
35:1 (Fall 2007): 11-40.
“Potentiality,
Energy and Sway: From Aristotelian to Modern to Postmodern Physics?” Existentia
11 (2001): 27-41.
“Metaphysical Liberalism in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie.”
Political Theory 25:5 (October 1997): 655-679. Reprinted in Heidegger
Reexamined, vol. 3, ed. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall. New
York: Routledge, 2002.
“Heidegger’s Topical Hermeneutics: The Sophist Lectures.” Journal of
the British Society for Phenomenology 27:1 (January 1996): 53-76.
Reprinted in Heidegger
Reexamined, vol. 1: Dasein, Authenticity, and Death, ed. Hubert L.
Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall. New York: Routledge, 2002.
“The Role of Self-Knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason.” Auslegung
16:2 (Summer 1990):
165-173.
Contributions to anthologies
“A Heideggerian Critique of Cyberbeing.” In The Horizons of Authenticity: Essays in
Honor of Charles Guignon’s Work on Phenomenology, Existentialism, and
Moral Psychology, ed. Megan Altman and Hans Pedersen. Springer,
forthcoming.
“Self-Assertion as Founding.” In an anthology on Heidegger’s 1934-35
seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of
Right, ed. Michael Marder, Peter Trawny, and Marcia Sá
Cavalcante Schuback. London: Continuum, forthcoming.
“Drawing the Line: Political Thought in Heidegger’s Lecture Courses and
Seminars of 1933-35.” In an anthology on Heidegger edited by Holger
Zaborowski. Washington: Catholic University of America Press,
forthcoming.
“Traumatic Ontology.” In Being
Shaken: Ontology and the Event, ed.
Michael Marder and Santiago Zabala. Evanston: Northwestern University
Press, forthcoming.
“The Secret Homeland of Speech: Heidegger on Language, 1933-34.” In Heidegger
and Language, ed. Jeffrey Powell. Indiana University Press,
forthcoming.
“Being and Time.” In Martin
Heidegger: Key Concepts, ed. Bret W. Davis.
Chesham: Acumen, 2010.
“Jenseits von Kampf und Macht: Heideggers heimlicher Widerstand.”
[German translation of “Beyond Struggle and Power,” listed above.] In Heidegger
und der Nationalsozialismus II: Interpretationen,
Heidegger-Jahrbuch 5, ed. Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski.
Freiburg: Karl Alber, 2009.
“Ereignis.” In A
Companion to Heidegger, ed. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
“The Event of Enthinking the Event.” In Companion to
Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy,” ed. Charles Scott et al.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
“The Question of Nothing.” In A Companion to
Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics,” ed. Richard Polt and
Gregory Fried. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Contributions to reference works
“Typewriters.” In Encyclopedia of
the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920, ed. Christine
Rider. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
“‘Einführung in die Metaphysik’: Eine Erkundung der physis und
ihrer Entmachtung”; “‘Die Frage nach dem Ding’: Eine Auseinandersetzung
mit den Grundlagen der modernen Wissenschaft”; “‘Beiträge zur
Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)’: Ein Sprung in die Wesung des Seyns.” In Heidegger-Handbuch:
Leben—Werk—Wirkung, ed. Dieter Thomä. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler,
2003.
“Martin Heidegger.” In Profiles in
Contemporary Social Theory, ed. Anthony Elliott and Bryan S.
Turner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers, 2001.
“Community”; “Humanism”; “Person”; “Wholeness.” In Dictionary of
Existentialism, ed. Haim Gordon. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999.
“Feuerbach, Ludwig”; “Heidegger, Martin”; “Sartre, Jean-Paul”; “Zubiri,
Xavier.” In Encyclopedia
of the Essay, ed. Tracy Chevalier. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Review articles
“Time Fractured, Times Regained.” (Review article on Time After Time,
by David Wood.) Research in Phenomenology 39:2 (September 2009):
309-325.
“Recent
Translations of the Republic.” Teaching Philosophy 30:4 (December
2007): 453-470.
Book reviews
Review of Contributions to
Philosophy (Of the Event), by Martin Heidegger, trans. Richard
Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu. Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, July 2012.
Review of Parmenides, Plato and Mortal
Philosophy: Return from Transcendence, by Vishwa Adluri. Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, August 2011.
Review
of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics, by
Santiago Zabala. Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, no. 9
(2010): 109-111.
Review of Basic Concepts of
Aristotelian Philosophy, by Martin Heidegger, translated by Robert
D. Metcalf and Mark B. Tanzer. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
(ndpr.nd.edu), November 2009.
Review of The Irony of Heidegger, by
Andrew Haas. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July
2008.
Review of Speaking Against Number:
Heidegger, Language and the Politics
of Calculation, by Stuart Elden. Continental Philosophy Review
40:4
(December 2007): 451-454.
Review of City and Soul in Plato’s
“Republic,” by G. R. F. Ferrari.
Classical Bulletin 82:2 (2006): 262-4.
“That
Single Individual.” (Review
of Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joakim Garff.) Village
Voice, March 1, 2005.
“Remembering to Think.” (Review of Responsibility and Judgment, by
Hannah Arendt.) Village Voice, May 3, 2004.
“Dirty Hands.” (Review of Camus and Sartre, by Ronald Aronson). Village
Voice, Feb. 13, 2004.
Review of Heidegger’s “Contributions
to Philosophy”: An Introduction,
by Daniela Vallega-Neu. Teaching Philosophy 26:4 (December 2003):
411-413.
“Being
Here.” (Review of Existential America, by George Cotkin.) Village
Voice, March 28, 2003.
Review of Heidegger’s Way of Thought,
by Theodore Kisiel. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February
2003.
Review of Heidegger’s Concept of
Truth, by Daniel O. Dahlstrom. History
and Philosophy of Logic 23 (2002): 141-3.
Review of Besinnung, by
Martin Heidegger. Review of Metaphysics 54:1
(September 2000): 145-147.
Review of German Ideology: From
France to Germany and Back, by Louis
Dumont. Review of Metaphysics 49:3 (March 1996): 648-650.
Review of The Cambridge Companion to
Heidegger, ed. Charles Guignon.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55:3 (September 1995): 725-728.
Review of The Question of Being: A
Reversal of Heidegger, by Stanley
Rosen. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 14:4 (August 1994): 286-288.
Translations (from German and French)
Nature, History, State: 1933-1934,
by Martin Heidegger, with essays by
Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, Marion Heinz, Theodore Kisiel, and
Slavoj Žižek. Translated and edited, with an introduction, by Gregory
Fried and Richard Polt. London: Continuum, forthcoming 2013.
Introduction to Metaphysics,
by Martin Heidegger. Translated, with an introduction, notes, and
glossary, by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. Revised edition, with new
introduction and supplementary material. New Haven: Yale University
Press, forthcoming.
Being and
Truth, by Martin Heidegger. Translated, with an introduction and
glossary, by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2010.
“Phenomenology: Heidegger after Husserl and the Greeks,” by Günter
Figal. In Martin
Heidegger: Key Concepts, ed. Bret W. Davis. Chesham: Acumen, 2010.
“Why Reawaken the Question of Being?” by Jean Grondin. In Heidegger’s
“Being and Time”: Critical Essays, ed. Richard Polt. Lanham,
Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
“The Demise of Being and Time: 1927-1930,” by Theodore Kisiel. In Heidegger’s
“Being and Time”: Critical Essays, ed. Richard Polt. Lanham,
Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Introduction to Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger. Translated, with
an introduction, notes, and glossary, by Gregory Fried and Richard
Polt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
“The Unconditioned in Knowing: I—Identity—Freedom,” by Hans-Michael
Baumgartner. In The
Emergence of German Idealism, ed. Michael Baur and Daniel O.
Dahlstrom. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 34.
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999.
Twilight of the
Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated with notes by Richard
Polt, introduction by Tracy Strong. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997.
Selections from Nietzsche’s Twilight
of the Idols. In Classics of
Western Philosophy, ed. Steven M. Cahn. Indianapolis: Hackett,
1995
(4th ed.), 1999 (5th ed.), 2002 (6th ed.), 2007 (7th ed.).
Selections from Nietzsche’s The Gay
Science and Twilight of the
Idols.
In Existentialism: Basic Writings,
ed. Charles Guignon and Derk
Pereboom. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995 (1st ed.), 2001 (2nd ed.).
Other philosophical publications
“Reality
is Flat. (Or Is It?)” The Stone, The New York Times, August 16,
2012.
“Anything
But Human.” The Stone, The New York Times, August 5, 2012.
“Arendt
and the Space of Action.” The Point 1:1 (Spring 2009): 65-68.
“Richard Polt:
The Ereignis Interview.” Interview with Richard Polt by Peter
Ferreira, December 2005.
“Heidegger and the Nazis.” The
Philosophers’ Magazine 14 (Spring 2001): 39-40.
“Being Martin
Heidegger.” Interview with Richard Polt by Ralph Brave. Salon.com,
Nov. 13, 2000.
Presentations
Original presentations
“Statehood, Leadership, and Political Space in Heidegger’s Seminar of
1933-34.” Panel on “New Perspectives on Heidegger and Political Life,”
American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 2012.
Panelist, “Asking the Question of Being: On the Thought of Thomas
Sheehan.” Invited contribution, Heidegger Circle meeting, Atlanta, May
2012.
“Drawing the Line: Political Thought in Heidegger’s Lecture Courses and
Seminars of 1933-35.” Invited paper, Catholic University of America
Fall 2011 lecture series, October 2011. Video
available here.
“On Richard Capobianco’s Engaging Heidegger.” Heidegger Circle meeting,
Milwaukee, May 2011.
“The Secret Homeland: Silence and Language in Being and Truth.” Invited
paper, Heidegger Circle satellite meeting at yearly meeting of the
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal,
November 2010. (Read in absentia.)
“When Time Comes to Be: Heideggerian and Arendtian Inceptions.” Invited
paper, Committee on Social Thought colloquium series, University of
Chicago, May 2008.
“The Varieties of Willful Experience: Thoughts on Bret Davis’ Heidegger
and the Will.” North American Heidegger Conference, Northern Illinois
University, May 2008.
“Heidegger and the Founding of Time.” Philosophy Department Colloquia
Speaker Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, February 2006.
“Heidegger, Space, and Architecture.” Invited lecture, architecture
department, Miami University of Ohio, September 2005; Xavier University
Philosophy Department Speaker Series, October 2005.
“Evoking the Momentous Site: Time-Space in the Contributions to
Philosophy.” North American Heidegger Conference, Old Dominion
University, May 2003.
“Potentiality, Power and Sway: From Aristotelian to Modern to
Heideggerian Physics?” North American Heidegger Conference, Fordham
University, May 2001.
“What is Inceptive Thinking?” North American Heidegger Conference,
Villanova University, April 1998.
“Typology: A Phenomenology of Early Typewriters.” Back to the
Things Themselves, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, March
1996.
“Sachlichkeit in Heidegger’s Sophist Course.” Collegium
Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 1995.
“Metaphysical Liberalism in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie.”
Invited paper, Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence,
RI, November 1994.
“Heidegger’s Originary Leap.” Colloquium paper, American Philosophical
Association, Central Division, Kansas City, MO, May 1994.
“On Luck and Ethics in Ancient Greece.” First Friday Lecture Series,
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, May 1992.
Responses to papers
Response to David Pettigrew and Daniela Vallega-Neu, in panel
discussion of Richard Polt, The
Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s
“Contributions to Philosophy.” North American Heidegger
Conference,
Boston University, May 2006.
Response to “Poetry, Eros, and Thought in Nietzsche and Heidegger,” by
Babette Babich. North American Heidegger Conference, Goucher College,
May 2005.
Response to “Toward a Practice of Authentic Everydayness,” by Joan
Stambaugh. North American Heidegger Conference, University of New
Orleans, May 2004.
Response to “Reconstruction and the Nature of Philosophy in Plato’s
Republic,” by Gregory Fried. Society for Modern/Post-modern Dialogue,
American Catholic Philosophical Association, Cincinnati, November 2002.
Response to “Apatheia, Ataraxia and Historical Disclosure,” by S.
Pierre Lamarche. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division,
Atlanta, December 2001.
Response to “Re-Inventions: What Will Heidegger Have Been?” by Thomas
Sheehan. North American Heidegger Conference, Marshall University, May
2000.
Response to “Heidegger’s Destructive Retrieval of Plato: The Lecture
Course on the Sophist,” by Kevin Thompson. American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, December 1997.
Other selected
professional activities
Secretary-treasurer, Heidegger Circle, May 2008-present
Convenor, 2009 meeting of the Heidegger Circle, Cincinnati, OH, May 2009
Administrator, Heidegger Circle
website (heideggercircle.org) and Forum, May 2005-present
Text seminar co-leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di
Castello, Italy, July 2000
Collegium topic: Heidegger’s Contributions to
Philosophy
Directors: John Sallis and Charles E. Scott, Penn
State University
Participant, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July-August
1995
Collegium topic: Heidegger and the Greeks
Director: James Faulconer, Brigham Young University
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1994
Seminar topic: Postmodernism: A Philosophical
Genealogy
Director: Bernd Magnus, University of California,
Riverside
Associate editor, Gatherings: The
Heidegger Circle Annual
Editorial board, The Heidegger
Concordance, ed. François Jaran
and Christophe Perrin (Continuum, forthcoming)
Advisory board for Heidegger Lexicon,
ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming)
Scientific committee for Bulletin heidéggerien,
ed. Christophe
Perrin and Sylvain Camilleri