Introduction to Hegel?s Philosophy of History

by Jean Hyppolite, Bond Harris (Editor), Jacqueline B. Spurlock (Editor)

Hyppolite was the most famous scholar of Hegel in modern France and teacher of five of this century's major French philosophers--Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Bataille, and Guattari. This work is an explication of the meaning of Hegel's vision of history. In it, Hyppolite plots the developments--both correct and incorrect, within scholarship and historical events--of the apprehension of Hegel's "Absolute Spirit."

 

Genres: Philosophy

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Studies on Marx and Hegel.

Reviews

[Thomas]

Hyppolite is een eersteklas interpreet. Enorm helder. En ik wist niet dat Hegel oorlog noodzakelijk vond voor vrijheid. Dat is nogal een claim.

[Aung Sett Kyaw Min]

History is always the history of an individual people. The highest task that Hegel set for himself was to reconcile absolute reason with history, or with what philosophical consciousness usually regards with suspicion as something contingent, given or positive. Hence, Hyppolite contends, the 'pantragicist' character of Hegel's philosophy of objective spirit--the soul cannot remain in a beautiful repose in the realm of the pure ought but must of necessity enter into contingency and involve itself in all the pain, suffering and misery that accompanies its moments. Moments of what? Moments of the State, the real vehicle that expresses and actualizes the fate and destiny of a peoples. Yet as Jean Hyppolite and others recognize, there is yet something higher and more sovereign than even the State in Hegel's system. Such is the authority of the Absolute Spirit which encompasses, for example, the sphere of art and religion, and whose presence and intimations, in some sense, remain indecipherable from the vantage point of Objective Spirit...

[Matis]

Ouvrage très rapide et accessible qui, comme son nom l'indique, introduit la pensée de l'histoire de Hegel. Mais ce n'est pas tant un passage en revue de son rapport a l'histoire (la dialectique est peu évoquée) que l'évolution de la pensée de l'Histoire chez Hegel qui est ici développée. On y découvre beaucoup d'éléments fructueux ainsi que ceux qui témoignent aussi des limites de la pensée hégélienne. Bon et rapide ouvrage en somme

[Camilla Pruccoli 🎃☕️🪄]

Un libro breve ma denso, di comprensibile lettura critica portata avanti da Jean Hyppolite sui pensieri hegeliani attorno alla storicità e alla filosofia del diritto.
Consigliato ad ogni appassionato di materia.

[Kaden]

An extremely interesting reading of Hegel where, most importantly, the equivalence of pan-Logicism and pan-Tragedism is maintained. Very interesting to compare with Lukcas's reading of Hegel which stresses the notion of structured totality and mediation through labor with a retroactive reading via Marx & Smith. Hyppolite on the other hand takes Hegel's organism of the state far more seriously, finding its basis in philosophical assumptions rather than ideology.