James Bahoh
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
About Professor Bahoh
Professor Bahoh (PhD Duquesne University, MA Boston College) joined the department in 2020. Prior to coming to the University of Memphis, he held positions as Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Deakin University in Australia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University, VolkswagenStiftung / Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bonn in Germany, and Scholar-in-Residence at Duquesne University's Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. While completing his PhD, he spent half a year as a visiting researcher at Heidelberg University in Germany. Dr. Bahoh's main research is in phenomenology, post-phenomenological Continental philosophy, and ontology / metaphysics in the context of German and French thought from Kant to today. He is especially interested in Heidegger and Deleuze and is a proponent of drawing on the history of philosophy to advance and to address issues in 21st-century post-analytic / continental divide philosophy. He also has interests in social / political and early modern philosophy.
Dr. Bahoh is author of Heidegger's Ontology of Events (2020) and is currently working on a new book on the relation of the concept of event to the metaphysics and ontology of identity, difference, and representation. The book focuses on the theories of events advanced by Heidegger and Deleuze, and ways these theories engage Kant and post-Kantian thought.
Beginning May 2024, Dr. Bahoh is currently serving a three-year term as Presiding Officer of the Heidegger Circle Executive Committee. The Heidegger Circle is the main North American scholarly society for research dealing with the philosopher Martin Heidegger.
Selected Publications
Books:
21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide, edited by James Bahoh, Marta Cassina, and Sergio Genovesi (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Edited Journal Issue:
Co-editor with Dave Mesing and Jason Wirth, Schelling and Naturphilosophie, a special issue of Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 8.3 (2016).
Selected Journal Articles and Chapters:
鈥楢n Introduction to the Philosophy of Events: Issues in Analytic, Continental, and Post-Divide Approaches,鈥� co-authored with Sergio Genovesi, 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide, edited by James Bahoh, Marta Cassina and Sergio Genovesi (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
鈥楳aking the Difference: Eternal Return, Simulacrum, and Ontico-Ontological Unity in Deleuze鈥檚 Engagement with Nietzsche and Plato,鈥� Comparative and Continental Philosophy, (online first, March 2023).
鈥淭he irreconcilable self in Heidegger鈥檚 logic of authenticity and event,鈥� Inscriptions 5, no. 1 (January 2022): 74-89.
'Deleuze's Theory of Dialectical Ideas: The Influence of Lautman and Heidegger,' Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Vol. 13.1 (2019): 19-53.
Russian translation: 'Teoriia dialekticheskikh Idei u Deleza: vliianie Lotmana i Khaideggera'
('孝械芯褉懈褟 写懈邪谢械泻褌懈褔械褋泻懈褏 懈写械泄 褍 袛械谢械蟹邪: 袙谢懈褟薪懈械 袥芯褌屑邪薪邪 懈 啸邪泄写械谐谐械褉邪'), trans. Artem
Morozov, The Logos Journal (袞校袪袧袗袥 袥袨袚袨小) (forthcoming).
'Heidegger's Differential Concept of Truth in 叠别颈迟谤盲驳别,' Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 4 (May 2014): 39-69.
Translations
Jean-Luc Nancy, 鈥楾he disappearance of the event,鈥� translated with Marta Cassina, in 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide, co-edited by James Bahoh, Marta Cassina, and Sergio Genovesi (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
Recent Presentations
Book Panel on Heidegger鈥檚 Ontology of Events (EUP 2020), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, October 12-14, 2023.
Commentator on Eliska Wichterlova, 鈥楾emporal Sequentiality in Heidegger鈥檚 Early Work鈥� and Paul Goldberg, 鈥楾he Early Heidegger鈥檚 Critique of Mathematical Physicalism,鈥� 57th Annual Heidegger Circle Conference, Boston University, May 11-14, 2023.
鈥楬eidegger on Fundamental Principles,鈥� North Texas Heidegger Symposium, McKinney, TX, April 28-29, 2023.
鈥楨vents and their Others,鈥� Deakin Philosophy Seminar, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, October 4, 2022 (presentation via Zoom).
鈥楨vents and their Others,鈥� Symposium on Events and Eventfulness in the Humanities and Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, July 15-16, 2022.
鈥楨vent, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger鈥檚 Ontology,鈥� Keynote Presentation, Conference: Event and Becoming, The Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Moss, Norway, June 11, 2021 (presentation via Zoom).
'Heidegger's Two Concepts of Event in 叠别颈迟谤盲驳别,' Heidegger Circle Satellite Session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2019.
'Deleuze's Ontology of Ground in Diff茅rence et r茅p茅tition,' Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2019.
'Alienation and Freedom in Heidegger's 叠别颈迟谤盲驳别,' Heidegger Circle Conference, Rochester, NY, May 16-19, 2019.
'Deleuze on Kant and Maimon: Conditional vs Genetic Grounds,' Kolloquium zur franz枚sischen Philosophie, Universit盲t Bonn, April 26, 2018.
'Outline for a Realist Ontology of Problems: Heidegger, Lautman, and Deleuze,' Kolloquium: Gegenwartsphilosophie, Universit盲t Bonn, January 23, 2018.
'Deleuze, Lautman, and the Ontology of Dialectical Ideas,' Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Memphis, TN, October 2017.
'Heidegger's "produktive Logik,"' Heidegger Circle Conference, Chicago, IL, September 15-18, 2016.
Selected Interviews and Podcasts
'' (on Heidegger's Ontology of Events), Philosophy for the People Podcast, November 13, 2019.
'Heidegger and Art,' interviewed by William Theodoracopulos (Theostudio.org), July 5, 2018.
, The American Philosophical Association Blog, April 2018.