Barbara Cassin

Barbara Cassin is a philosopher, Hellenist, philologist, essayist, writer, and translator. She is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and specializes in ancient Greek sophistry and contemporary rhetoric. In 2012, she was awarded the Grand Prize of the French Academy for her body of work, which includes her role as editor of the prominent philosophical dictionary "Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: dictionnaire des intraduisibles" (Le Seuil, 2004).