Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French...
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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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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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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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History of aesthetics (section Hippolyte Taine)
(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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French instrument maker Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899), French entomologist Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), French physicist Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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philosophy of history, positivism was appropriated by historians such as Hippolyte Taine. Many of Comte's writings were translated into English by the Whig...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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