Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/05/2016
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
ICCR
Categories
To celebrate the release of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology in a newly revised translation, Seagull Books and the French Embassy in India cordially invite you to a conversation between Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Urvashi Butalia and Benjamin Conisbee Baer on Tuesday 24 May 2016, 6:30pm at the Satyajit Ray Auditorium, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).
Barbara Cassin (born October 24, 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida‘s Collège international de philosophie and director of research (senior research chair) at the CNRS. In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy. In a footnote in 2007’s Logic of Worlds, Alain Badiou portrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thought with the linguistic turn. From 1991 to 2007 she co-directed with Alain Badiou the series L’Ordre Philosophique, at Le Seuil publishers. She is the author of L’Effet Sophistique (1995) and the editor of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies, ( 2004) an international collective work of philosophers sponsored by the European Union. She has also written Google-moi. La Deuxième Mission de l’Amérique (2007), In September 2012 a Cerisy symposium about her works was held, with contributions by Xavier North, Étienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro, Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Alain Badiou.
