birth_date: 1828-04-21 00:00:00
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name: Hippolyte Taine
about: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French philosopher, 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. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.[1] Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoly...Hippolyte Adolphe Taine était un historien, philosophe et critique littéraire français. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French philosopher, 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. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.[1] Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoly...Hippolyte Adolphe Taine était un historien, philosophe et critique littéraire français. ...more
death_date: 1893-03-05 00:00:00