Barbara Cassin
Why do we sometimes feel like strangers even when we are at home? Why do we sometimes feel at home in places where we have no roots? Why do we like to return there and why do we feel nostalgic when we are away? What does it mean to be at home? Can we ever really be at home? These are just some of the questions treated by philosopher and philologist Barbara Cassin in her new work Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? (La Nostalgie, Quand donc est-on chez soi ? Ulysse, Enée, Arendt, Autrement, 2013.) Through a subtle re-reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia and its relationship to language.
Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher. She is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS in Paris. Cassin is the author or editor of more than 20 works of philosophy, including the Dictionary of Untranslatables (2004 / English translation 2014), a philosophical lexicon aimed at establishing a map of European philosophical differences in languages and the difficulties in translating. Cassin received the Grand Prize of Philosophy from the Académie Française in 2012.
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