Barbara Cassin (; born 24 October 1947) is a French

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and

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. She was elected to the

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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

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(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

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. In 2006 she succeeded

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to the directorship of the leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. In recent years she has been teaching seminars and writing books in partnership with

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Work

Her work centers on

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and

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, and their relation to philosophy. In a footnote in 2007's ''Logic of Worlds'',

portrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thought with the

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. From 1991 to 2007, she co-directed with Alain Badiou the series L'Ordre Philosophique, at Le Seuil publishers. She is the series editor of

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's journal ''Revue des Femmes Philosophes'' She is the author of ''L'Effet Sophistique'' (1995) and the editor of ''Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies'', (2004) an international collective work of philosophers sponsored by the European Union. She has also written ''

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-moi. La Deuxième Mission de l'Amérique'' (2007), In September 2012, a Cerisy symposium about her works was held, with contributions by

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, Fernando Santoro,

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, Souleymane Bachir Diagne,

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and

, among others. Barbara Cassin is also an art curator and her exhibition of translation is highly acclaimed.

Publications

* ''Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?''. Fordham University Press, 2016 * ''Heidegger – His Life and His Philosophy''. with

, 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

, Columbia University Press, 2017 * ''Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis''. Fordham University Press, 2019

References

External links

Barbara Cassin
Bio with http://frenchculture.org
Biography with CNRSLecture of political concepts
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