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PHILOSOPHER

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

1857 - 1939

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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. Born in Paris, Lévy-Bruhl wrote about the mind in his work How Natives Think (1910), where he posited, as the two basic mindsets of mankind, the "primitive" and the "modern". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl has received more than 115,070 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Lucien Lévy-Bruhl is the 308th most popular philosopher (up from 313th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from France (down from 822nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Philosopher.

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French anthropologist who is most famous for his work on the "primitive mind" and his theory of "participation mystique."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 308 out of 1,081. Before him are Anne Sullivan, Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Asanga, Hilary Putnam, Speusippus, and Jacobus Arminius. After him are Ammonius Saccas, Justus Lipsius, Sebastian Brant, Isaac Abarbanel, Giovanni Gentile, and Alfred Schütz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 27. Before him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Axel Munthe, Andrija Mohorovičić, Paul Doumer, and Antoni Grabowski. After him are Georg Michaelis, Joseph Babinski, Karl Pearson, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Otto von Below. Among people deceased in 1939, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 17. Before him are Edward Sapir, Anton Makarenko, Philipp Scheidemann, Karl Radek, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, and Matthias Sindelar. After him are Antonio Machado, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Louis Wain, and Douglas Fairbanks.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 836 out of 6,011. Before him are Eric Cantona (1966), Saint Remigius (437), Simon Vouet (1590), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), David Guetta (1967), and Edme Mariotte (1620). After him are Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), Robert Nivelle (1856), Georges Dumézil (1898), Guntram (532), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), and Jean Todt (1946).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 41. Before him are Nicole Oresme (1323), Roger Garaudy (1913), Georges Sorel (1847), Raymond Aron (1905), Félix Guattari (1930), and Roscellinus (1050). After him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Bruno Latour (1947), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Edgar Morin (1921).

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