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Warum fühlen wir uns manchmal wie Fremde, auch wenn wir zuhause sind? Und warum, so fragt sich Barbara Cassin, empfinde ich umgekehrt Nostalgie, wenn ich an Korsika denke, obwohl ich meine Wurzeln nicht dort habe? In ihrem gefeierten Essay erforscht sie dieses starke Gefühl und die universellen Themen von Flucht, Exil und Sehnsucht nach einer Heimat, indem sie zwei Gründungstexte der westlichen Kultur neu liest: Homers Odyssee und Vergils Aeneis. In einer brillanten Analyse des Werks der Exilantin Hannah Arendt zeigt Cassin dann, wie die Sehnsucht nach Heimat...

In this book, we discover unusual Presocratics, wreaking havoc with the fetish of true and false. Their logoi perform politics and perform reality. Their sophistic practice can shed crucial light on contemporary events, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in...

In There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan's short text, thinking "with" Lacan about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to knowledge....

This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities. The...

Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of...