caption death_date death_place influenced birth_place influences nationality field birth_date article_title name
lucien lévy-bruhl 13 march 1939 -lrb- aged 81 -rrb- paris paul , léon brunschvicg masson-oursel , c. g. jung , hélène metzger paris Émile durkheim french philosophy , sociology , ethnology 10 april 1857 lucien lévy-bruhl
 lucien lévy-bruhl
lucien lévy-bruhl

lucien lévy-bruhl -lrb- 10 april 1857 -- 13 march 1939 -rrb- was a french scholar trained in philosophy , who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology .
his primary field of study involved primitive mentality .
lévy-bruhl was born in paris .
he was an anthropologist who wrote about the ` primitive mind ' .
in his work `` how natives think '' -lrb- 1910 -rrb- , lévy-bruhl 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-bruhl , moreover , the primitive mind does n't address contradictions .
the western mind , by contrast , uses speculation and logic .
like many theorists of his time , lévy-bruhl believed in a historical and evolutionary teleology leading from the primitive mind to the western mind .
sociologist stanislav andreski argued that despite its flaws , lévy-bruhl 's `` how natives think '' was an accurate and valuable contribution to anthropology , perhaps even more so than better-known work by claude lévi-strauss .
lévy-bruhl 's work , especially the concepts of `` collective representation '' and `` participation mystique '' , influenced the psychological theory of c. g. jung .
