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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine ( French pronunciation: [ipɔlit adɔlf tɛn], 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Hippolyte Taine (born April 21, 1828, Vouziers, Ardennes, France—died March 5, 1893, Paris) was a French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most-esteemed exponents of 19th-century French positivism. He attempted to apply the scientific method to the study of the humanities.
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (April 21, 1828 - March 5, 1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Hippolyte Taine's Literary Theory and Criticism* Today the name Taine almost compulsively evokes three words: race—milieu—moment. He is known as the founder of a sociological science of literature. But one has the impression that—at least, outside of France—he is not read any more. Writers on English literature
Hippolyte Taine, (born April 21, 1828, Vouziers, Ardennes, France—died March 5, 1893, Paris), French thinker, critic, and historian. Taine came to believe as a youth that knowledge must be based on sense experience, observation, and controlled experiment, a conviction that guided his career.
Jan 1, 2009 · Historians of European historiography have often characterized Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) as an adherent of the positivist school of thought, typical for the development of a scientific culture in Western Europe that differed from its German counterpart.1 In...
Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine was a philosopher, psychologist, historian, and critic. Taine and Ernest Renan were the leading French positivistic thinkers of the second half of the nineteenth century. As a result of Taine's great independence of mind, his life was not always comfortable.
Philosopher, literary and art critic; first chair in the history of art at the école des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Taine began as a lycée teacher at Toulon and Nevers, France. His refusal to sign an allegiance oath to the new President of France, after the 1851 coup d’état forced his dismissal.
HIPPOLYTE TAINE, HISTORIAN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ALFRED COBBAN· University College London TAiNE is the most influential and stimulating, the most dazzling, in a word perhaps the greatest of bad historians. His power as an historical writer is undeniable. If he had been an ancient historian,
Hippolyte Taine - French Philosopher, Critic, Historian: In 1870 he published the two volumes of De l’intelligence (On Intelligence), a major work in the discipline of psychology, which had interested him since his youth.
