Jean Hyppolite

Jean Hyppolite ( born January 8, 1907 in Jonzac, France, † October 26th 1968 in Paris) was a French philosopher. With his work on the Phenomenology of Spirit, he contributed greatly to the spread of Hegelian philosophy in France after the Second World War at.

Between 1939 and 1941 he published his translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (La Phenomenology de l' Esprit, Paris, Vol I, 1939, vol II, 1941), which was also the first translation of this work in France. After 1945 he became a professor at the University of Strasbourg and published in 1947 his commentary on the Phenomenology ( Genčse et structure de la Phenomenology de l' Esprit de Hegel). In 1949 he was appointed professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. There, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Laplanche and Michel Foucault were among his students. In 1954 he became director of the École Normale Supérieure; In 1963 he was appointed to the chair " Histoire des systèmes " at the Collège de France, where he succeeded in 1970, Michel Foucault.

Works

• Genčse et structure de la Phenomenology de l' esprit de Hegel, 1946 ( Genesis and Structure of Hegel 's " Phenomenology of Spirit", 1974, 5th edition 2000)
• Logique et existence. 2nd edition, Paris 1961
• Etudes sur Marx et Hegel, 1955 ( Studies on Marx and Hegel, 1969)