Jean Hyppolite

Jean Hyppolite is a philosophical French, born with Jonzac in 1907 and deceased in 1968 with Paris.

Biography

It entered to the National university at the same time as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron. It attended the courses of Kojève on the Phénoménologie of the spirit to EHESS and considered Maurice Merleau-Ponty " like its frère".

He was the professor of khâgne of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault with the Lycée Henri-Iv and directed the National university of the street of Ulm. He was also Professor with the Collège de France, where Michel Foucault succeeded to him. Louis Althusser figure also among its pupils.

Large historian of philosophy, it wrote much on Karl Marx and Hegel. He founded in 1953 the collection " Épiméthée " with the University Presses of France in which it published translations of German philosophers such Hegel, Feuerbach, Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger. It influenced many intellectuals, like Lacan.

Contribution

Jean Hyppolite remains primarily famous for his work on Hegel: he wrote the first French translation of the Phénoménologie of the spirit and published a great comment of this work, Genèse and structure of the Phenomenology of the spirit. Among its remarkable works on the hegelianism, it is also necessary to announce its Introduction to the philosophy of the history of Hegel and Logique and Existence. In connection with his translation of the Phenomenology of the spirit, one can quote this remark of Alain Badiou: " I have be extraordinarily struck by observation that me has made once one of my translators in German, Jürgen Brankel, philosopher of Hamburg, which declared me that it was impassioned by the French translation of the Phénoménologie of the spirit by Jean Hyppolite, infinitely more than by the book of Hegel. He considered that actually, the book of Hegel in German was a passably formless book, scrambled, a typical children's book, said it, and that Hyppolite had made a true monument of it, completely new and that, in truth, it was necessary to completely distinguish the Phénoménologie from the spirit of Hegel and the translation of the Phénoménologie of the spirit by Hyppolite, which was a book of full exercise in which according to him German philosophy had immediately and imperatively puiser.".

External bonds

Day of studies of the cycle passurs on " Jean Hyppolite, between structure and existence" , organized by Giuseppe Bianco and F. Worms with the CIEPFC of the ENS

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