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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

1857 - 1939

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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (French: [levi bʁyl]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl is the 314th most popular philosopher (up from 321st in 2019), the 853rd most popular biography from France (up from 867th in 2019) and the 44th 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 314 out of 1,267. Before him are Synesius, Roscellinus, Georges Sorel, Henri Lefebvre, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, and Félix Guattari. After him are Alfred Schütz, Abu Yusuf, Mazdak, Pietro Pomponazzi, Moritz Schlick, and Vyasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 26. Before him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Paul Doumer, Antoni Grabowski, Andrija Mohorovičić, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Axel Munthe. After him are Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Georg Michaelis, Joseph Babinski, Thorstein Veblen, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Ida Tarbell. Among people deceased in 1939, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 17. Before him are Harvey Cushing, Philipp Scheidemann, Werner von Fritsch, Anton Makarenko, Edward Sapir, and Karl Radek. After him are Douglas Fairbanks, James Naismith, Matthias Sindelar, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Antonio Machado, and Anthony Fokker.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 853 out of 6,770. Before him are Félix Guattari (1930), Marie de France (1101), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Mylène Demongeot (1935), and François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775). After him are François Darlan (1881), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Robert Curthose (1054), Paul Reynaud (1878), François Bayrou (1951), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl ranks 44. Before him are Jacques Maritain (1882), Guy Debord (1931), Roscellinus (1050), Georges Sorel (1847), Henri Lefebvre (1901), and Félix Guattari (1930). After him are Louis Couturat (1868), René Girard (1923), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), Étienne Cabet (1788), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), and Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782).

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