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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.
race, milieu, and moment, according to the French critic Hippolyte Taine, the three principal motives or conditioning factors behind any work of art. Taine sought to establish a scientific approach to literature through the investigation of what created the individual who created the work of art.
(1828–1893) 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.
May 23, 2018 · The French critic and historian Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of his period in France. His emphasis on scientific methods in criticism formed the basis of contemporary critical techniques. Hippolyte Taine was born in Vouziers in the Ardennes on April 21, 1828, into a family of civil servants.
Hippolyte Taine, né le 21 avril 1828 à Vouziers et mort le 5 mars 1893 à Paris 6e, est un philosophe et historien français, membre de l' Académie française . Biographie. Jeunesse et études.
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 accordance with that view, Wilhelm Dilthey grouped him together with other scholars li...
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
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