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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.
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.
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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, né le 10 avril 1857 à Paris et mort le 13 mars 1939 dans la même ville, est un philosophe, sociologue et anthropologue français. Ses travaux, au début du XXe siècle, ont principalement porté sur l'étude des peuples sans écriture. Il fut l'un des collaborateurs d' Émile Durkheim.
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).
Jun 8, 2018 · LÉVY-BRUHL, LUCIEN (1857–1939), French anthropologist, philosopher, and psychologist. Born and educated in Paris, Lévy-Bruhl taught philosophy at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1885–95), and later at the Sorbonne where he was appointed to the chair of history of modern philosophy.
Lévy‐bruhl, Lucien (1857–1939) in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French Length: 108 words
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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. The six volumes present an integrated picture of a single ...
