Jean Hyppolite 1907 – 1968
Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher and the most important early French interpreter and translator of Hegel. His French translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit and his accompanying commentary, Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, gave a generation of French thinkers, including Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and Althusser, sustained access to Hegel's mature philosophy. He held chairs at the Sorbonne and the College de France and was the founding director of the Ecole Normale Superieure.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Jean Hyppolite:
“Hegel's Phenomenology is the becoming of consciousness.”
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Attributed to Jean Hyppolite:
“Genesis and structure are the twin terms of dialectical thought.”
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Attributed to Jean Hyppolite:
“The philosopher must inhabit history, not contemplate it from afar.”
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Attributed to Jean Hyppolite:
“To read Hegel is to read history thinking itself.”
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Attributed to Jean Hyppolite:
“Logic and existence are not finally separable.”