Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Adolphe Tainewas a French 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. 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"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth21 April 1828
CountryFrance
Hippolyte Taine quotes about
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.