| Lucien Lévy-Bruhl | |
 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl | |
| Born | 19 Apr 1857 |
|---|---|
| Died | 13 Mar 1939 |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | philosophy |
Lucien Lévy-Brühl (1857-1939) was a French scholar trained in philosophy, but who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology, and ethnology. Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "habit custom convention" is the branch of Anthropology that compares and His primary field of study involved primitive mentality.
Lévy-Brühl was the first anthropologist to address comparative cognition. In his work How Natives Think (1910), Lévy-Brühl speculated about what he posited as the two basic mindsets of mankind, "primitive" and "Western. " The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses "mystical participation" to manipulate the world. According to Lévy-Brühl, moreover, the primitive mind doesn't address contradictions. The Western mind, by contrast, uses speculation and logic. Like many theorists of his time, Lévy-Brühl believed in a historical and evolutionary teleology leading from the primitive mind to the Western mind.
Evans Pritchard critiqued Lévy-Brühl, arguing that the primitive mind addresses contradictions, but does so differently. Sir Edward Evan (E E Evans-Pritchard ( September 21, 1902 – September 11, 1973) was a British anthropologist instrumental
Works
- Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures (1910), translated as How Natives Think (1926)
- La mentalité primitive (1922), translated as Primitive Mentality (1923)
- L'âme primitive (1927), translated as The "Soul" of the Primitive (1928, reedited in 1965 with a foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
- Le surnaturel et la nature dans la mentalité primitive (1931), translated as Primitives and the Supernatural (1936)
- La mythologie primitive (Primitive Mythology, 1935)
- L'expérience mystique et les symboles chez les primitifs (The Mystic Experience and Primitive Symbolism, 1938)
- Les carnets de Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (Notebooks of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, published posthumously in 1949)
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Sir Edward Evan (E E Evans-Pritchard ( September 21, 1902 – September 11, 1973) was a British anthropologist instrumentalDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic