The Ancient Regime Summary
Hippolyte Taine

INTRODUCTION Why should we fetch Taine’s work up from its dusty box in the basement of the national library?  First of all because his realistic views of our human nature, of our civilizati... Read more

The French critic and historian Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893) was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of his period in France. His emphasis on scientific methods in criticism formed t... Read more