# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-cassin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:23:15.771Z

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name: "Barbara Cassin"
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description: "Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie Française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie Française. She is an emeritus research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is a program director at the International College of Philosophy and the director of its Scientific Council and member of its board of directors. She was a director of Collège international de philosophie established by Jacques Derrida. In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. In recent years she has been teaching seminars and writing books in partnership with Alain Badiou."
tagline: "French philologist and philosopher (born 1947)"
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birthDate: "1947-10-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump