Victor Emma-Adamah

Victor Emma-Adamah works in the areas of philosophy of religion and religious studies, at the intersection of the disciplines of philosophy and theology. His areas of specialization lie broadly in metaphysics, in the history of early modern and modern philosophy, 19^th-century contexts of French philosophy and French Spiritualism (from Biran to Bergson), and 20^th-century French Continental philosophy and phenomenology (M. Merleau-Ponty, E. Levinas, M. Henry). His research explores themes of personhood and modern conceptions of subjectivity and humanisms; philosophies of body and materiality; the philosophy of technology; metaphysics and spiritual realisms; as well as global histories of philosophy, African thought and practice. The overall arc of his research interest is the quest for a deeper understanding of the diverse facets of the modern self and ways of being, in order to recover the dimension of a meaningful spiritual reality for life. Before taking up his present position at UATX, he was a Visiting Scholar and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy Department of Boston College; a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophical Theology at Puritan Theological Seminary; a Research Fellow and part-time lecturer at the Catholic University of Toulouse, France. He is completing a monograph in 19^th and 20^th-century metaphysics titled Being and Movement: Félix Ravaisson, French Spiritualism and the Metaphysics of Activity (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is editor of a forthcoming work titled,French Spiritualism: New Horizons in Continental Philosophy (Lexington Books, forthcoming), and recently co-edited a book in 19^th-century French religious philosophy, Victor Emma-Adamah, Simone Kotva, and Clare Carlisle (eds), Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. He has published extensively on diverse topics of philosophy and religious thought, including a forthcoming article in Modern Theology, titled “Transformation and Transcending: Falque, Deleuze and the Experience of Becoming-Other.”