Barbara Cassin

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France (FR)

Belgium (BE)

Denmark (DA)

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Philologist, Hellenist, philosopher and a member of the French Academy, Barbara Cassin has published numerous books, including Éloge de la traduction (In praise of translation), published in 2016. She edited the Dictionary of Untranslatables, first published in French in 2004. An emeritus research director at the CNRS and a leading figure in contemporary French philosophy, she was awarded the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française in 2012 for her entire body of work. In recent years she has been teaching seminars and writing books in partnership with Alain Badiou.

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Bibliography

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L'Effet sophistique (Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism), Editions Gallimard, 1995‍
Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles (Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon), edited by Barbara Cassin, Editions du Seuil, 2004‍
Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. Deux leçons sur «L'Etourdit» de Lacan (There′s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship – Two Lessons on Lacan) with Alain Badiou, Fayard, 2010
‍Eloge de la traduction (In praise of translation), Fayard, 2016

Non-fiction

La Nostalgie : Quand donc est-on chez soi ? Ulysse, Énée, Arendt

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2013