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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (born April 19, 1857, Paris, France—died March 13, 1939, Paris) was a French philosopher whose study of the psychology of primitive peoples gave anthropology a new approach to understanding irrational factors in social thought and primitive religion and mythology. Lévy-Bruhl was professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne from ...
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Scientific career. Fields. philosophy, sociology, ethnology. Doctoral students. Alice Voinescu. 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.
LRVY-BRUHL'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF PRIMITIVE MENTALITY. THE death of Lucien Levy-Bruhl a few months after the publica-tion of his sixth and latest book on the subject of primitive mentality,' makes it appropriate to offer here, not a review of his last book as an isolated contribution, but a discussion of his work in this field as a whole.
Jan 16, 2008 · Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939. Publication date 1923 Topics Primitive societies, Ethnopsychology, Primitive societies Publisher London, Allen & Unwin Collection
Nov 3, 2020 · Levy-Bruhl (1857-1939) was a French philosopher, anthropologist, and historian of religion. He was interested in mental habits and the reasoning processes of archaic and civilized peoples. He wrote two important descriptive and analytical books on this subject How Natives Think (1910) and Primitive Mentality (1922).
Mar 25, 2021 · Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 1857-1939. Publication date 1978 Topics Ethnophilosophy, Religion, Ethnopsychology Publisher New York : AMS Press Collection claremont_school_of ...
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May 22, 2014 · Participation and Causality: Lévy-Bruhl Revisited. A recurring debate within discussions of religion, science, and magic has to do with the existence of distinct modes of thought or “orientations” to the world. The thinker who initiated this debate, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, distinguished two such orientations, one characterized as ...
