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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...
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    administrative centralisation from the Old Regime to the Revolutionary years. Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) in his Origines de la France contemporaine (1875–94) used...
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  • Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian John Taine, pen name of Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), Scottish novelist Charles Foster Taine...
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  • (which was adopted by Reynolds) has been worked out more recently by Hippolyte Taine. In his work, The Ideal in Art (trans. by I. Durand), he proceeds in...
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  • the history of ordinary French people and the landscape of France. Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), although unable to secure an academic position, was the...
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    Thiers, Mignet and Tocqueville were prominent in the liberal strand. Hippolyte Taine's Origins of Contemporary France (1875–1894) was modern in its use of...
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    whom he felt an immediate kinship. He also exchanged letters with Hippolyte Taine and Georg Brandes. Brandes, who had started to teach the philosophy...
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  • Herder's writings."—Koller, Armin H. (1912). "Johann Gottfried Herder and Hippolyte Taine: Their Theories of Milieu," PMLA 27, p. xxxix. Hoyrup, Jens (2000)...
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  • quoted in The Origins of Contemporary France: The ancient régime, by Hippolyte Taine, Bk2, ch.1, p. 110 in this edition Quote in Ian Kelly, Cooking for...
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  • much taken up by the Positivists (Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Hippolyte Taine, Émile Littré) Empiricism Positivism Solipsism José Ortega y Gasset;...
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    scope of Leonardo's notebooks was known, as well as his paintings. Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another...
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    Alfred Lallie reported that 4,860 people were drowned confirmed by Hippolyte Taine. According to Reynald Secher, 4,800 victims suffered execution by drowning...
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    Politiques with important industrialists and academics that included Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, Albert Sorel and Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu. From 1873...
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  • French instrument maker Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899), French entomologist Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), French physicist Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French...
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    Denis; the idea had been forward not long before by Hippolyte Taine in The Philosophy of Art, where Taine wrote: "A painting is a colored surface, in which...
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    Dumas, fils had a paternal affection for him; at Aix-les-Bains he met Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) and became devoted to the philosopher-historian. Flaubert...
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    an outsider who never felt at home in France or with other people. Hippolyte Taine said Napoleon saw others only as instruments and was cut off from feelings...
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  • positivism, but also to physiologist Claude Bernard and historian Hippolyte Taine. Comte had proposed a scientific method that "went beyond empiricism...
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    remarking that "it is the work of an artist, but not a work of art." Hippolyte Taine, writing in 1864, characterized Carlyle as a "modern Puritan" who saw...
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  • (1818–1898) Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) Lord Acton (1834–1902) Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882) William...
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    Life of Charles Dickens, London: Everyman's Library, ISBN 0460007823 Hippolyte Taine (1879), History of English Literature, Translated from French by H...
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    France. However, the conservative French art historian and critic Hippolyte Taine was an Anglophile who greatly admired Britain as the land of "civilised"...
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    Flaubert was famous for his years of research for historical details). Hippolyte Taine supplied much of the philosophy of naturalism: he believed that every...
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    enchantée (fr), describing slavery in Réunion. A later contributor was Hippolyte Taine. François Buloz, 1831–1877; Charles Buloz, 1877–1893; Ferdinand Brunetière...
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  • naturalism was applied to the scientific study of art and literature by Hippolyte Taine. Contemporary sociologists do not generally dispute that social phenomena...
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    1789 has been the nature of the crowds that stormed the building. Hippolyte Taine argued in the late 19th century that the crowd consisted of unemployed...
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    corrupt and violent. In the 19th century, positivist French historian Hippolyte Taine repeated Burke's arguments in Origins of Contemporary France (1876–1885)...
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    regarded it to be one of the finest portraits ever. French historian Hippolyte Taine considered the portrait as "the masterpiece amongst all portraits"...
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  • (1861–1941)[3][4] Tai Chen (or Dai Zhen or Tai Tung-Yuan) (1724–1777)[1][2][4] Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893)[4] Gáspár Miklós Tamás (1948–2023) T'an Ssu-t'ung (1864–1898)[1]...
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  • Steiner Bernard Stiegler Michel Surya Peter Szendy Pierre-André Taguieff Hippolyte Taine Gabriel Tarde Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Theobald of Étampes Gustave...
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