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Hippolyte Taine
Overview
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (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. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
Taine had a profound effect on French literature; Maurice Baring wrote in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's." Out of the trauma of 1871, Taine has been said by one scholar to have "forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography."
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What is called "modern ideas," or "the ideas of the eighteenth century," or "French ideas"--that, consequently, against which the GERMAN mind rose up with profound disgust--is of English origin, there is no doubt about it. The French were only the apes and actors of these ideas, their best soldiers, and likewise, alas!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Furthermore, the way was cleared for the philosophical position that history is not, as was once thought, the expression of a predetermined plan whose purpose is that of a divine education, but that it is the result of laws immanent in historical life itself. Though variously expressed and partly obscured by surviving ideas of the preceding period, this is the fundamental conviction common to the nineteenth-century…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
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It is a real misfortune that so very little of those older philosophic masters has come down to us and that all complete works of theirs are withheld from us. Involuntarily, on account of that loss, we measure them according to wrong standards and allow ourselves to be influenced unfavourably towards them by the mere accidental fact that Plato and Aristotle never lacked appreciators and copyists. Some people…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
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Philosophers who discussed Hippolyte Taine
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Ernest Renan
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Georges Sorel
- Pierre Laromiguière
- Petre P. Negulescu
- Piotr Chmielowski
- Kiyoshi Miki
- Dumitru D. Roșca
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Historicism
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Victor Cousin
- Liberalism
- French Third Republic
- Paris
- Sense
- Positivism
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- University of Oxford
- Émile Zola
- Peter Kropotkin
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Paris Commune
- Rationalism
- Peter Gay
- Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Imagination
- Idiosyncrasy
- Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.