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Our Guest
Barbara Cassin is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris (Centre Léon Robin de Recherche sur la pensée Antique, Paris IV Sorbonne-CNRS). Her training is in philosophy and philology, as a specialist of ancient Greece. Her initial research focused on the relations between philosophy and sophistics. Her major publications are L’Effet sophistique (Paris, Gallimard, 1995), Aristote et le logos, Contes de la phénoménologie ordinaire (Paris, PUF, 1997), Parménide, Sur la nature ou sur l’étant, La Langue de l’être (Paris, Seuil, Points-bilingues, 1998), Voir Hélène en toute femme, d’Homère à Lacan (Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2000). She worked on contemporary rhetorical and political issues, as Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (Vérité, Réconciliation, Réparation, Seuil, 2004), and examines critically some new modern tools of "cultural democracy" (Google-moi, la deuxième mission de l'Amérique (Albin-Michel, 2006). She has also initiated and directed a Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies, Dictionnaire des Intraduisibles (Paris, Seuil-Robert, 2004), which deals with about 15 european languages (ancient and modern), and shows how a tongue is much more than a set of words but is rather a web through which the world is perceived and thought. Barbara Cassin will be hosted by CNRS & NYU's Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Transitions UMI 3199 & the Department of Comparative Literature from February 1st to March 30th 2010.
February 24, 2010 | 7 - 8.30 pm
Barbara CASSIN | Centre Léon Robin, CNRS-Université de Paris IV- La Sorbonne
Homme, Femme, Philosophie*
*Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature & La Maison Française
La Maison Française, NYU | 16 Washington Mews (at University Place)
Barbara Cassin on the Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies ou Dictionnaire des Intraduisibles