Intelligence by Taine, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. VOLUME 2 ONLY. 507 pp. Octavo. Bound in contemporary quarter brown leather. Gilt lettering to spine. 5 raised bands. Speckled boards. Speckled page ends. Good binding and cover. Corners bumped. Very minimal foxing otherwise clean, unmarked pages. This book is the second volume of a two volume set about intelligence written by Hippolyte Taine, a conservative French literary critic and historian who wrote in throughout the 1800s.

Complet en 2 volumes in 8, broches,492+508 pages,il manque la 1 ere de couverture au tome 1. EDITION ORIGINALE.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Mixed edition (vol. 1 first, vol. 2 second). Edges rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1870 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. Half-leather: leather spine and boards, pebbled cloth boards, gilt titles and rules. 492; 508 pp. 8vo. Taine was a French critic and historian, a chief influence in French naturalism, an advocate of sociological positivism, and an early historicist (perhaps the first). This works provides an analysis of the human mind, discussing brain physiology, knowledge, sense perceptions, images, etc.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Boards lightly soiled, corners a bit rubbed. 1870 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. 492; 508 pp. 8vo. Taine was a French critic and historian, a chief influence in French naturalism, an advocate of sociological positivism, and an early historicist (perhaps the first). This works provides an analysis of the human mind, discussing brain physiology, knowledge, sense perceptions, images, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is not a leather reprint that so many companies are offering. This is the original 1872 First American edition published by Holt & Williams. This edition is scarce and hard to find. EXCELLENT condition. Beige buckram cloth hardback with gilt titling on the spine. 514 pages includes what later became two volumes. This is the full book in one volume. Marbled end papers. Clean all the way. Best condition for a 1870's book that I have ever seen. But this owner kept their books immaculate. Translated from the French by T. D. Haye and revised with additions by the author. (BR) Box 210.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Volume 1: Publication of 492 pages. / Volume 2: Publication of 508 pages. The top edge of the spine is a little scuffed. // 1/4 Leather. Marble page edges and around the block of the book. There is gilt on the spine and 5 raised bands. Both the boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the books. The binding is excellent. In good condition considering the age of the books (1870). Set of 2 Volumes. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First edition. (4), 492; (4), 508 pp. Contemporary half calf (2 volumes) with raised bands, gilt decoration on spine, marbled edges. Spines slightly soiled and sunned, bookplate. A Very Good+ set.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. In-8. (2),492,(2),508p. First ed. 2 Vol Bound in original half red morocco, 5 raised bands. The emergence of an energetic movement of criticism oriented towards the status of language brought Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) to publish De l'Intelligence (1870), his philosophical treatise. In his philosophy of language, Taine adopted Condillac's concept of sign. Images, which are a specific type of signs, permit us to imagine things that are not immediately available for experience. Those images, produced by our imagination, help us to understand what Taine called names. Taine defined common names as being twofold. They are general in that they are suited for all the types of objects they refer to (i.e., the name "wheel" stands for all possible wheels). Common names are also abstract in that they designate something universal and, thus, common to all the types of objects they refer to. Is it possible, asked Taine, to experience that universal something, which he defines as being the idea of a thing? No, argued Taine, since the general idea of a thing comes from the very definition of this thing.

Édition originale."UN DES PIONNIERS DE LA PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE".Bel exemplaire, frais. Vicaire, VII, 732. Demi-chagrin brun, dos à nerfs, filets à froid, titre, auteur et tomaison dorés, tranches marbrées.

Condition: Bound. FIRST EDITION. Volume 1: original front wrap + 1 leaf + TP + 1 leaf + [3]-492 + original back wrap; Volume 2: original front wrap + 1 leaf + TP + 1 leaf + [3]-508 + original back wrap, Octavo. Hippolyte Taines's most important work. Regarding the psychology: "Modern psychology. in France may be said to begin in 1870, when two important books were published, Taine's De L'Intelligence and Ribot's La Psychologie anglaise contemporaine in which the prevailing associationism was well and clearly expounded." (Flugel, A Hundred Years of Psychology). "The history of psychological theories in France entered upon a new phase in 1870. Whatever else may be thought of the work done by Taine, no one would deny his right to be considered the leader of the empirical school and the exponent of concrete practical methods of study." (Brett, History of Psychology) Although Taine's philosophical views were formed early in life under the influence of Spinoza, Hegel and classical science, they were first systematically expounded in this book. The theory of mind presented here is based on Taine's general monism and determinism. In his work on intelligence Taine insists that there are no entities corresponding to words such as "faculty, 'power', 'self'. Psychology for him is the study of facts; and in the self or ego we find no facts except 'the series of events' which are all reducible to sensations. In this line of thought, considered by itself, Taine goes as far as any empiricist could wish. "We think that there are neither minds nor bodies, but simply groups of movements present or possible, and groups of thoughts present or possible." And it is interesting to observe Taine's insistence on the bewitching power of language, which induces philosophers to postulate unreal entities that "vanish when one scrupulously examines the meaning of the words." His empiricism also shows itself in his rejection of the a priori method of Spinoza, a method which can do no more than reveal ideal possibilities. Any knowledge of existing reality must be based on and result from experience. contemporary green half-linen with marbled boards (with the original wraps bound in) and gilt lettering on the spine. Very minor rubbing to extremities and light foxing throughout. A really beautiful copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.