Deakin’s Philosophy and the History of Ideas group is delighted to welcome Dr James Bahoh as a visiting Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow

James Bahoh’s main work is in ontology, drawing especially on German and French philosophy since Kant. He received his PhD from Duquesne University in 2016 and – before coming to Deakin University – has held positions as VolkswagenStiftung / Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bonn and Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University.

He is especially interested in the theories of events developed by Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze and he recently published a book – Heidegger’s Ontology of Events – with Edinburgh. He has just begun a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship here at Deakin, where he’ll continue work on a new book examining ways Deleuze and Heidegger developed their theories of events via intellectual engagements with earlier classical German philosophy (especially Kant and late 18^th– / early 19^th-century post-Kantianism). This project will focus on ways these theories of events challenge the primacy of the traditional logic of identity and its apparatuses of representation. James’ academic website can be found here.