Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

[[Autochrome]] by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (10 April 1857 – 13 March 1939) was a French scholar trained in philosophy who furthered anthropology with his contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field interest was ways of thinking.

Born in Paris, Lévy-Bruhl wrote about the mind in his work ''How Natives Think'' (1910), where he posited, as the two basic mindsets of mankind, the "primitive" and the "modern". The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality but uses "mystical participation" to manipulate the world. According to Lévy-Bruhl, the primitive mind does not address contradictions. The modern mind, by contrast, uses reflection and logic.

Lévy-Bruhl did not necessarily believe in a historical and evolutionary teleology leading from the primitive mind to the modern, but this is often assumed because his work is rarely read in full; rather, his thought is more dynamic, as shown by his later ''Notebooks on Primitive Mentality'', where he admits that non-logical thought is common in modern societies, such as in gambling practices. Sociologist Stanislav Andreski argued that despite its flaws, Lévy-Bruhl's ''How Natives Think'' was an accurate and valuable contribution to anthropology, perhaps even more so than better-known work by Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Lévy-Bruhl's work, especially the concepts of ''collective representations'' and ''participation mystique'', influenced the psychological theory of Carl Jung.

His thought also plays a large part in the work of Norman O. Brown. Provided by Wikipedia
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    La mentalidad primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1922
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    La philosophie d'Auguste Comte / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1913
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    El alma primitiva / by Levy Bruhl, Lucien 1857-1939

    Published 1986
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    El alma primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1974
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    L'ame primitive / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1929
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    Les carnets / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1949
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    Les foctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures. by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1951
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    La mentalidad primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1972
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    La mentalidad primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1957
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    La mitología primitiva : el mundo mítico de los australianos y papúes / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1978
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    La moral y la ciencia de las costumbres / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1929
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    La morale et la science des moeurs. by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1953
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    El alma primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1974
    Book
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    Las funciones mentales en las sociedades inferiores / by Levy Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1947
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    La mentalidad primitiva / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1945
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    La morale et la science des moeurs / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1910
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    La morale et la science des moeurs / by Levy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1927
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    La morale et la science des moeurs / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1920
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    Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures / by Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939

    Published 1918
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