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Jean Gaston Constant Hyppolite was a French linguist, translator, philosopher, and professor. Born in Jonzac in 1907, he was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, the École Normale Supérieure, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He studied under Alexandre Kojève and was influenced by Jean Cavaillès, Karl Marx, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hyppolite worked at the Collège de France and was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
He is associated with the Postmodernism movement and had an interest in German idealism. His notable works include *Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel*, *Hegel*, *Figures de la pensée philosophique*, and *Sens et existence dans la philosophie de Maurice Merleau-Ponty*. He taught students such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Louis Althusser, and Jacques Derrida. Gilbert Simondon was his doctoral student. Hyppolite died in Paris in 1968.
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1968
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegelmicroform
- Charles Peguy
- Hegel
- Figures de la pens�e philosophique [2 volumes]
- Sens et existence dans la philosophie de Maurice Merleau-Ponty / par Jean Hyppolite
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1844
- Active to
- 1917
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Recent publications · Crossref
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Key facts
- Born
- 8 January 1907 ( 1907-01-08 ) , Jonzac , Poitou-Charentes , France
- Died
- 26 October 1968 (1968-10-26) (aged 61), Paris, France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure
- Doctoral advisor
- Émile Bréhier
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy
- Institutions
- University of Strasbourg , University of Paris , École Normale Supérieure, Collège de France
- Doctoral students
- François Châtelet
- Notable students
- Gilles Deleuze , Jacques Derrida , Michel Foucault
- Main interests
- History of philosophy
- Notable ideas
- Correlating Hegel 's Phenomenology to his Logics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Jonzac
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- translator
- Educated at
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Alexandre Kojève
- Doctoral student
- Gilbert Simondon
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Image
- Jeanhyppolitejonzac.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1907-01-08
- date of death
- 1968-10-26
- Commons category
- Jean Hyppolite
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Jean Gaston Constant Hyppolite
- influenced by
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- student
- Jacques Derrida
- interested in
- German idealism
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Hyppolite ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ipɔlit]; 8 January 1907 – 26 October 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G. W. F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel (1946) and Études sur Marx et Hegel (1955) and the first translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit into French in 1939.
Life and career
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