Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French philosopher and anthropologist
1857, Paris, France — 1939, Paris, France
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Lévy-Bruhl was a French philosopher and anthropologist whose studies of the mental life and belief systems of non-Western societies influenced early ethnology and the sociology of knowledge. He came from a French Jewish family and taught at the Sorbonne. Though his notion of 'primitive mentality' was later revised, his comparative approach to how societies think left a lasting mark.
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French philosopher and anthropologist
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