TAINE, H.

Le Positivisme anglais: étude sur Stuart Mill.

Paris, Balliere, 1864.

8vo. In a later half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name (Carl Henrik Koch, Danish professor in philosophy) to pasted down front end-paper. Internally occassionally brownpostted and with underlignings and annotations in pencil. VIII, 157 pp.

The first edition of Taine's study on Mill and English Positivism in general in which he advocates for an alternative, distinctly French philosophy. Taine criticizes Mill for his excessive empiricism, arguing that by limiting himself to experience and its immediate data, Mill has merely described the English mind while believing he was describing the human mind.

Order-nr.: 61837