Barbara Cassin and Sophistics

Research Questions

This project partly consisted of translations of Barbara Cassin’s work from French to Swedish. This sets her apart compared to several of her predecessors (e.g. Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault) as well as her contemporary colleagues (e.g. Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière), since no major translation of Cassin’s work into Swedish exist at this moment. The project was also born out of the fact that Cassin had recently been awarded some of the highest honors within the French cultural scene, including the Grand prix de philosophie from the French Academy in 2012 and the Croix de chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2014. In 2018, Cassin was also elected to hold chair 36 in the Académie française. I have published three short translations together with a short introduction to Cassin’s work in the Scandinavian journal Rhetorica Scandinavica. The project also included a publication in the academic journal Philosophy & Rhetoric, treating Cassin’s ongoing debate with Alain Badiou surrounding the relation between the sophists and philosophy. The final aim of the project was to finalise an anthology with translations of Cassin’s text into Swedish together with an extensive introduction to her thought and her place within contemporary French philosophy. The project also includes articles on Cassin’s work and her understanding of the sophists.

Outputs

[Publications, conference papers and media contributions as they appear.]