Homage to the ‘Homage to the Hommage à Jean Hyppolite’

Abstract

This special section presents three essays that grew out of Christopher O’Neill’s inspired idea to organise a panel, the “Homage to the Hommage à Jean Hyppolite” at the 2023 ASCP Conference. The panel reflected on what may appear at first glance to be a rather obscure text: the Hommage à Jean Hyppolite (1971), a collection of essays edited by Michel Foucault and others that paid homage to their teacher and colleague, Jean Hyppolite, shortly after his early death in 1968. Its most well-known essay is Foucault’s own contribution to the volume, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” But the volume contains other significant interventions from the thinkers across the field of the human sciences as wel..