Philologist
Barbara Cassin, a CNRS gold medalist and member of the Académie française, is a philologist and philosopher. A specialist in ancient Greece, she studies the power of words. She notably directed the Vocabulaire européen des philosophies, Dictionnaire des intraduisibles (Seuil-Robert 2004, 2019), which has been translated, or rather reinvented, into about ten languages. She was the curator of the exhibition Après Babel, traduire (Mucem, 2016-2017), which is also intended to be reinvented elsewhere (Bodmer Foundation, 2017-2018; Museum of Immigration in Buenos Aires, 2022; and in 2024-2025, Babel heureuse? at the Museum of the City of Luxembourg and the Court of Justice of the European Union). She curated the exhibition Les Objets migrateurs (Marseille, La Vieille Charité, 2022) and co-curated the permanent exhibition at the Cité Internationale de la langue française, which has just opened in Villers-Cotterêts. She is currently preparing a Dictionnaire des intraduisibles des trois monothéismes.
Recent Publications:
Upcoming in 2024: L’Odyssée au Louvre, a graphic novel,
Louvre, Flammarion
Le livre d’une langue, Editions du patrimoine, 2023
Ce que peuvent les mots. Philosophistiser, Bouquins, 2022
Objets migrateurs. Trésors sous influence, Liénart Musées de Marseille, 2022
Les Maisons de la sagesse - Traduire, une nouvelle aventure, with Danièle Wozny, Bayard, 2021
Le bonheur, sa dent douce à la mort, Fayard, 2020
Spoken Language: French
Photo Credit: Opale John Fowley