21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide

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James Bahoh (James Bahoh is Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University, Marquette University) Marta Cassina (Research Associate at the Centre for Science & Thought, University of Bonn, Germany)

21st-Century Philosophy of Events

Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide

James Bahoh (James Bahoh is Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University, Marquette University), Marta Cassina (Research Associate at the Centre for Science & Thought, University of Bonn, Germany), Sergio Genovesi (Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, Germany.)

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Edinburgh University Press
08 December 2025

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social & political philosophy

Series: Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy

The concept of 'event' has held a prominent position in both analytic and continental philosophy since the middle of the 20th century. And yet, until recently, the division between these two traditions resulted in their respective theories of events rarely coming into contact. However, early 21st-century philosophy has been marked by a concerted effort by many to move beyond the analytic-continental divide. Explaining the nature of events, their place in reality, and their significance in the world has become a major problem around which segments of this work coalesce. This book draws together current philosophers to reframe existing debates on events within a post-divide pluralism, to recalibrate the theory of events based on recent ontology and metaphysics, and to advance the philosophy of events. It includes as an appendix a previously unpublished piece on the topic of events by the late Jean-Luc Nancy.

Edited by: James Bahoh (James Bahoh is Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University Marquette University), Marta Cassina (Research Associate at the Centre for Science & Thought, University of Bonn, Germany), Sergio Genovesi (Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, Germany.)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399539777
ISBN 10: 1399539779
Series: Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 08 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

James Bahoh is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is a previous recipient of a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship and a VolkswagenStiftung / Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is author of Heidegger's Ontology of Events (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and articles in journals like Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, among others. Marta Cassina is a contemporary art curator and PhD candidate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Her research explores themes of contemporary post-Wittgensteinian criticism and lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, ethics of forms of life, and radical community thought. She has published studies on Wittgenstein and Agamben, including Mostrare l’indicibile. Etica e soprannaturale in Ludwig Wittgenstein (EGR srl, 2016). She also worked as research assistant at the Center for Science and Thought, Bonn, on the development of an ethical certification for AI-powered software in the framework of the ‘KI.NRW’ project. Sergio Genovesi held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn’s Center for Science and Thought until 2023. He has published two books on the philosophy of events: Ereignis und Erfahrung (Mohr Siebeck, 2023) and Tracce dell’informe: L’indecostruibile e la filosofia dell’evento in Jacques Derrida (Mimesis, 2020). Additionally, at the University of Bonn, Genovesi conducted research on the philosophy of digital technologies and AI ethics, publishing several research articles and a collected volume on ethical issues of recommender systems. He is currently a consultant for AI ethics at SKAD AG.

Reviews for 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide

Through a division of philosophical labor, analytic philosophers have focused on everyday events, continental philosophers on once-in-a-blue-moon events as well as events that involve being as well as beings. Classifying these as ordinary, extraordinary, and ontological events, the papers in this collection raise fascinating questions about their individual natures and interrelationships.--Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago In the hands of Bahoh, Cassina, and Genovesi, this striking volume opens wide a new path for what is possible in contemporary philosophy. Offering a remarkable contribution to the theory of events, it shows that, if there ever was a single concept for upending the stale divide between Continentals and Analytics, 'event' is it.--Ryan J. Johnson. Elon University This groundbreaking volume brings together an extraordinary group of philosophers working across the analytic and continental traditions on a topic fundamental to both, the nature of events. In exhibiting work of this depth and importance that is accessible to both traditions, this volume exemplifies what 21st-century philosophy should be.--Michael J. Ardoline, Louisiana State University With the hackneyed siloing of Analytic and Continental philosophical approaches very much in its rearview mirror, the present collection of extraordinary philosophical talents masterfully advances contemporary inquiry into a philosophy of events, across putatively commonplace, epochal, and ontologically fundamental senses of events and their novelty.--Dan Dahlstrom, Boston University