Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. His major works-the translation, his commentary, and Logique et existence (1953)-coincided with an upsurge of interest in Hegel following World War II. 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...