Barbara Cassin (Paris, France, 1947).
She is a philosopher and philologist with doctorates from the universities of Lille and the Sorbonne, and currently serves as a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She has primarily focused on the works of the sophists, Parmenides, and Aristotle, highlighting the relationship between rhetoric and ontology in ancient textuality and, likewise, in the perspective of contemporary recoveries of the relationship between the practice of philosophy and language.
Among her works, it is worth mentioning: Le plaisir de parler (1986), La décision du sens (with Michel Narcy, 1989), Aristote et le logos (1997), Voir Héléne en toute femme: d’Homére a Lacan (2000). She has also directed the edition of Positions de la sophistique (1986), Nuestros griegos y sus modernos. Estrategias contemporáneas de apropiación de la Antigüedad (1992) and the monumental Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: dictionnaire des intraduisibles (2004).
Fondo de Cultura Económica has published El efecto sofístico (2008), Googléame. La segunda misión de los Estados Unidos (2008) and Más de una lengua (2014).
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