21st-Century Philosophy of Events
Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide
James Bahoh editor Sergio Genovesi editor Marta Cassina editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:31st Aug '25
£95.00
This title is due to be published on 31st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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 It includes as an appendix a previously unpublished piece on the topic of events by the late Jean-Luc Nancy.
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
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
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
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
ISBN: 9781399539777
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320 pages