Hippolyte Taine

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Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and literary critic known for his deterministic approach to history and literature, emphasizing the roles of race, milieu, and moment in shaping human behavior and culture.

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instanceOf historian
human
literary critic
philosopher
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1828-04-21
dateOfDeath 1893-03-05
describedBySource 19th-century French philosophy
doctoralThesis Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
educatedAt Collège Bourbon
École Normale (Paris)
surface form: École normale supérieure
employer Collège de France
École Polytechnique
École des Beaux-Arts
familyName Taine
fieldOfWork historiography
literary criticism
philosophy
genre essay
history
literary criticism
givenName Hippolyte
hasEffectOn development of literary naturalism
methodological approaches in literary history
influenced French naturalism
Gustave Lanson
Émile Zola
influencedBy Auguste Comte
Baruch Spinoza
John Stuart Mill
languageOfWorkOrName French
mainInterest aesthetics
epistemology
history of literature
psychology
memberOf Académie française
movement determinism
positivism
name Hippolyte Taine self-link
nationality French
notableIdea deterministic approach to history
deterministic approach to literature
race–milieu–moment theory
notableWork De l’intelligence
Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
Histoire de la littérature anglaise
Les Origines de la France contemporaine
Philosophie de l’art
placeOfBirth Ardennes
France
Vouziers
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld Professor at Collège de France
Professor at École Polytechnique
Professor at École des Beaux-Arts
sexOrGender male

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Vilfredo Pareto influencedBy Hippolyte Taine
Philhellenes hasNotableMember Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine name Hippolyte Taine self-link
Maurras influencedBy Hippolyte Taine
subject surface form: Charles Maurras