Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel\'s Phenomenology of Spirit.
More than fifty years after.
Yet Hyppolite\'s influence was as much due to his role as a teacher as it was to his translation or commentary: Foucault and Deleuze were introduced to Hegel in Hyppolite\'s classes, and Derrida studied under him.
His major works--the translation, his commentary, and Logique et existence (1953)--coincided with an upsurge of interest in Hegel following World War II.
Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel\'s Phenomenology of Spirit