In the work of Jean Hyppolite—a Hegelian who allows us to escape Hegel by acknowledging our debt to him. Is a non-Hegelian philosophy possible? Hyppolite sees philosophy not as system but as process, a perpetual interrogation. It is in moving contact with non-philosophy, with the other disciplines of knowledge (psychoanalysis, mathematics...). In Hyppolite one finds a study of the foundations of philosophical thought and of its formal structure: the essential problem of philosophy is faced, that is: the problem of a discourse which aspires to universal value coming nonetheless from an individual and historically located subject.