Barbara Cassin

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Barbara Cassin
Born	Laura Cassin (1947-10-24) 24 October 1947 (age 77) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Nationality	French
Education	Lycée La Fontaine
Alma mater	University of Paris
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Académie française

Barbara Cassin (French: [baʁbaʁa kasɛ̃]; born 24 October 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Cassin is a program Director at the International College of Philosophy and the director of its Scientific Council and member of its board of directors. She was a director of Collège international de philosophie established by Jacques Derrida.^[1] In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne.^[2] In recent years she has been teaching seminars and writing books in partnership with Alain Badiou.

Work

Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy. In a footnote in 2007's Logic of Worlds, Alain Badiou portrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thought with the linguistic turn.^[3]

From 1991 to 2007, she co-directed with Alain Badiou the series L'Ordre Philosophique, at Le Seuil publishers.^[4] She is the series editor of Unesco's journal Revue des Femmes Philosophes^[5]

She is the author of L'Effet Sophistique (1995) and the editor of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies, (2004)^[6] an international collective work of philosophers sponsored by the European Union. She has also written Google-moi. La Deuxième Mission de l'Amérique (2007),^[7]

In September 2012, a Cerisy symposium about her works was held, with contributions by Étienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro, Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar and Alain Badiou, among others.^[8] Barbara Cassin is also an art curator and her exhibition of translation is highly acclaimed.^[9]

Publications

• Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?. Fordham University Press, 2016
• Heidegger – His Life and His Philosophy. with Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2016
• Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism. Fordham University Press, 2014
• There′s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship – Two Lessons on Lacan. with Alain Badiou, Columbia University Press, 2017
• Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis. Fordham University Press, 2019

See also

• Women in philosophy
• List of women philosophers
• Alain Badiou
• Hannah Arendt
• Sophists
• Linguistic turn
• Lacanianism

References

1. "CITÉPHILO - Actualité Métropole - Nord - la Voix du Nord". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
2. "Bio of Barbara Cassin". frenchculture.org.
3. Badiou, Alain (24 January 2019). Logics of Worlds. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-04302-2 – via Google Books.
4. Both resigned over a disagreement with the Publisher; see Seuil franchi, in Libération, Paris, 17 May 2007.
5. "Barbara Cassin's introduction to Revue des Femmes Philosophes". unesco.org.
6. English translation: Dictionary of Untranslatables. A Philosophical Lexicon, Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-13870-1
7. "Barbara Cassin on Google (Episode 1) - Cultural Technologies Podcast - Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan". Bernardg.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
8. "Les pluriels de Barbara Cassin (2012)". Ccic-cerisy.asso.fr. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
9. "Après Babel, traduire". Mucem.

External links

• Biography with CNRS
• Lecture of political concepts