Lucien Levy-Bruhl 1857 – 1939
Lucien Levy-Bruhl (1857 – 1939) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl was a French philosopher and ethnologist and one of the most influential and most controversial of the early twentieth-century students of comparative thought. Long-time professor at the Sorbonne, he produced a series of major works including How Natives Think, Primitive Mentality, and The Soul of the Primitive, in which he argued that what he called the primitive mentality is governed by a logic of mystical participation rather than by the law of non-contradiction. In his late Notebooks he substantially revised the sharp contrast between primitive and civilized thought for which his earlier work was famous, an honest second thought that has shaped subsequent anthropological philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:
“There is more than one way for the human mind to grasp the world.”
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Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:
“What we call logic is one form of thought among many.”
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Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:
“Mystical participation precedes the law of non-contradiction in the history of mind.”
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Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:
“Ethnology corrects the parochialism of philosophy.”
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Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:
“I have learned to mistrust my earlier confident contrasts.”
Lucien Levy-Bruhl by topic
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- Lucien Levy-Bruhl was a French philosopher and ethnologist and one of the most influential and most controversial of the early twentieth-century students of comparative thought.
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