Famous People with Name Cassin

Riccardo Cassin            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Riccardo Cassin: is an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author.Cassin started mountaineering around 1930 together with a group known as the Ragni di Lecco.[4] In 1934, he made the first ascent of the Piccolissima of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo.

Barbara Cassin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barbara Cassin: is a French philologist and philosopher,[1][2] 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,[3] she succeeded to the head chair of Jonathan Barnes at the Centre Leon-Robin in 2006. Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy. Her work is considered a synthesis of the Heideggerian heritage with the linguistic turn.