Talk:Hippolyte Taine
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I've been attempting to tone down some of 1911's more florid writing, and also to pare the whole thing down--it's simply too long for our purposes. Earlier versions are available in the history if I've cut anything that matters. I'll try to continue in this vein until it looks more like a Wikipedia article. Chick Bowen 02:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
To my mind this entry is a tremendously biassed -- and deeply outdated -- treatment of Taine's achievement. The emphasis throughout is placed on his resignation and pessimism which incite a putative reaction; this is a precipitious claim. Above all, work needs to be done to update the bibliography. [T. Cronan] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 136.152.130.12 (talk • contribs) 20 July 2006.
[edit] Latest removal of 1911 Britannica material
For, oh, about a year now I've been meaning to get back to this article and try to straighten it up. As is attested above, it represents an extraordinarily skewed view of things, written during a period when Taine was still recent enough to be controversial and in a country where, though he lived there for a time, he was treated with considerable skepticism and some distrust. I have intended to update the 1911 material, but have come to the conclusion that there's just no way to do so; evaluating and updating each of EB's very broad assertion would require huge amounts of research and no little skill at revision. So I took it out. What's left is a decent biography and a link to race, milieu, and moment, which I wrote but I think it's not bad. Perhaps the latter should be merged in, I don't know. I certainly think the article needs an account of his work (as large a task as that would be given his output) but I don't think it can start with what was there. Chick Bowen 02:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
