Jean Hyppolite
Jean Hyppolite | |
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20th-century philosophy | |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy |
Main interests | History of philosophy |
Jean Hyppolite (French pronunciation:
Life and career
Hyppolite was born in
In 1952, Hyppolite published Logique et existence, a work that may have had a seminal effect on what was to become known as post-structuralism. This book tries to correlate Hegel's Phenomenology to his Logics (longer and shorter). In doing so, it raises the questions of language, being, and difference that were to become the hallmarks of new French philosophy at the end of the 20th century. The book was reviewed by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The translators of the English language edition of the text (SUNY Press, 1997) included Deleuze's review at the end of the volume.
In 1953 he founded the philosophical Épiméthée collection within the PUF publishing house.
In 1954, he became the director of the ENS and in 1955 produced a study of Karl Marx's earlier, more Hegelian period, at a time when the French interest in Hegel was at its apogee.[3] In 1963, he was elected to the Collège de France and given a chair in The History of Philosophical Thought.
While philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre were known for producing new works influenced by German philosophy, Hyppolite is remembered as an expositor, teacher, and translator. He influenced a number of thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, who studied Hegel under him at the Lycée Henri-IV, and Michel Foucault, as well as Jacques Derrida, Gérard Granel and Étienne Balibar (at the ENS).[3]
Hyppolite died in Paris.
Works
- Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1946)
- Logic and Existence (1952)
- Studies on Marx and Hegel (1955)
See also
References
- ^ Alan D. Schrift (2006), Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes And Thinkers, Blackwell Publishing, p. 138.
- ^ Hegel, G. W. F. (1939). La Phénoménologie de l'esprit, traduction de Jean Hyppolite. Paris: Aubier.
- ^ a b c Heckman, John. 2000 (1974). Introduction. In: Hyppolite, Jean. Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Northwestern University Press: Evanston. pp. xv–xli.