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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 122,865 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl is the 321st most popular philosopher (down from 308th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from France (down from 834th in 2019) and the 45th 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 321 out of 1,267. Before him are Jacobus Arminius, Gemistus Pletho, Judith Butler, Alfred Schütz, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and Alfred Tarski. After him are Rudolf Otto, Moritz Schlick, Ramanuja, Moses Hess, Martianus Capella, and Aristoxenus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 25. Before him are Paul Doumer, Axel Munthe, Andrija Mohorovičić, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Thorstein Veblen, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. After him are Ronald Ross, Georg Michaelis, Joseph Babinski, Karl Pearson, George Hendrik Breitner, and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1939, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 17. Before him are Philipp Scheidemann, Anton Makarenko, Karl Radek, Matthias Sindelar, Douglas Fairbanks, and Edward Sapir. After him are Antonio Machado, Louis Wain, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Ambroise Vollard, Alexander Yegorov, and Anthony Fokker.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 867 out of 6,770. Before him are Alfred de Vigny (1797), Louis Desaix (1768), Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Armand Fallières (1841), and Bernart de Ventadorn (1135). After him are Adelaide of Maurienne (1092), Victoire of France (1733), Dagobert II (650), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703), and Charles François Dumouriez (1739).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 45. Before him are Bruno Latour (1947), Roscellinus (1050), Sebastian Brant (1458), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Félix Guattari (1930). After him are Edgar Morin (1921), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), René Girard (1923), Jean Gerson (1363), Richard Avenarius (1843), and Étienne Gilson (1884).

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