Barbara Cassin

Barbara Cassin (French: [kas]; born October 24, 1947)is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 inBoulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Der-rida's Collge international de philosophie and director ofresearch (senior research chair) at the CNRS.[1] In 2006she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of theleading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Cen-tre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. Her work centers onSophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy.In a footnote in 2007s Logic of Worlds, Alain Badiouportrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thoughtwith the linguistic turn. For many years she co-directedwith Alain Badiou the series L'Ordre Philosophique, atLe Seuil publishers. She is the author of L'Eet So-phistique (1995) and the editor of Vocabulaire Europendes Philosophies, ( 2004) an international collective workof philosophers sponsored by the European Union. Shehas also written Google-moi. La Deuxime Mission del'Amrique (2007),[2] In September 2012 a Cerisy sympo-sium about her works will take place, with contributionsby Xavier North, tienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro,Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Alain Badiou.[3]

1 References[1] http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Metropole_

Lilloise/actualite/Secteur_Metropole_Lilloise/2008/11/15/article_citephilo.shtml

[2] http://bernardg.com/node/51 A book which she discussedin an interview in English on the Cultural Technologiespodcast.

[3] Program:http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/cassin12.html

1

2 2 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

2 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses2.1 Text

Barbara Cassin Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cassin?oldid=659440023 Contributors: Mandarax, Joe Decker, Smack-Bot, Roger Davies, Waacstats, Rettetast, WereSpielChequers, Gorgiasleonine, Addbot, Yobot, AnomieBOT, Omnipaedista, FrescoBot,RjwilmsiBot, Salvio giuliano, Wittgendegger, Betweenoors, Ostera65, Hrisson de Cloche, VIAFbot, KasparBot and Anonymous: 4

2.2 Images File:Ambox_important.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg License: Public do-

main Contributors: Own work, based o of Image:Ambox scales.svg Original artist: Dsmurat (talk contribs)

2.3 Content license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

ReferencesText and image sources, contributors, and licensesTextImagesContent license