Barbara Cassin

Philosopher, Hellenist and Germanist, she is the emeritus director of research at the CNRS, the French national scientific research council and a member of the French Academy. She won the CNRS Gold Medal in 2018, in recognition of a career dedicated to language. Her work is notable for highlighting the power of words. It shows how languages, moulded by migration, transmit world views that help to resist discourses that seek to freeze them in time. Some of her work translated into Spanish includes La nostalgia. Ulises, Eneas, Arendt (Alianza), Cómo hacer de verdad cosas con palabras. Homero, Gorgias y el pueblo arco iris (Cuenco de Plata), Elogio de la Traducción (Cuenco de Plata) and Jacques el sofista (Manantial). Her most recent books published in French are La guerre des mots, L’Odyssée au Louvre and Le bonheur, sa dent à la mort: Autobiographie philosophique. In 2005 the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences sociales et des Humanités d’Alsace (MISHA) and the Institut d’Études Supérieures Avancées de l’Université de Strasbourg (USIAS) instituted a new prize bearing her name, awarded for the translation into English of French research work in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).