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The artificial self : the psychology of Hippolyte Taine / Hilary Nias.

Title
The artificial self : the psychology of Hippolyte Taine / Hilary Nias.
Author
Nias, Hilary.
Publication
Oxford : Legenda, 1999.

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  • Modern Humanities Research Association.
  • University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre.
Description
259 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"In this pioneering study Hippolyte Taine (1828-93) emerges as the very model of the European intellectual in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised, tentative and ironic mentality very like the one Taine described in his psychological writings. These qualities are reflected not only in his own ludic response to his times, but in that of many fellow Second Empire intellectuals. Hilary Nias discusses Darwinian evolution, new scientific discoveries, 'la Critique' and Impressionism, which all made a profound impact on Taine's thinking and on his contribution to the moral revival and Nationalism of the Third Republic."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Philosophy, French > History > 19th century
  • Self
  • Self
  • Taine, Hippolyte > Psychology
  • Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 > Psychology
  • Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 > Views on self
Note
  • A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Reading, 1996.
  • "European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, Modern Humanities Research Association."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-244) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1900755181
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library