Édouard Lanson argued that Taine’s environmentalist methodology could not on its own account for genius.Taine's influence on French intellectual culture and literature was significant. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian. 47 (London, 1961)Hauser, Arnold (2012). "Johann Gottfried Herder and Hippolyte Taine: Their Theories of Milieu," Wolff, Mark (2001). He wrote the books of essays Although Taine was a moderate liberal before the 1870’s, he reacted to the Paris Commune (1871) with hostility and became a reactionary.

His chief works were Proceeding from A. Comte’s positivist evolutionism, Taine asserted that criticism should be a neutral analysis that avoids moral and ideological judgments.

French philosopher, aesthetician, writer, and historian. Taine's writing on the Revolution was, and remains, popular in France.

Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Den kann man in dem, was wir heute Naturalismus nennen, nicht leugnen. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (Vouziers, Ardenas, 21 de abril de 1828 – París, 5 de marzo de 1893) fue un filósofo, crítico e historiador francés; es considerado uno de los principales teóricos del naturalismo. Man sitzt in der Vorlesung und schreibt mit: Hippolyte Taine, Histoire de la littérature anglaise, vier Bände, race, milieu, et moment.Der Professor redete über den französischen Literaturkritiker und Historiker Hippolyte Taine und seinen Einfluss auf Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft.

Hippolyte Taine, in full Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, (born April 21, 1828, Vouziers, Ardennes, France—died March 5, 1893, Paris), French thinker, critic, and historian, one of the most-esteemed exponents of 19th-century French positivism.He attempted to apply the scientific method to the study of the humanities.. From there, he went on a medical cure in the Pyrenees in 1855, after which he wrote his famous Voyage aux Pyrénées, and began contributing numerous philosophical, literary, and historical articles to the He then took leave and travelled to England, where he spent six weeks.

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, francoski filozof, kritik in zgodovinar, * 21. april 1828, Vouziers, Francija, † 5. marec 1893, Pariz, Francija 5, 1893, in Paris. French philosopher, aesthetician, writer, and historian.Taine studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1848 to 1851. "Unamuno and Zola: Notes on the Novel", Lombardo, Patrizia (1990).

21, 1828, in Vouziers, in the Ardennes; died Mar. Così scriveva Taine nel 1853.Perciò i sentimenti stessi dell'uomo vanno descritti come il risultato di un processo meccanico, chimico o fisico: «il vizio e la virtù sono prodotti come il vetriolo e lo zucchero».

Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.