Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French philosopher and anthropologist known for his influential theories on collective representations and the concept of the 'primitive mentality.' A professor at the Sorbonne, he argued that non-Western thought followed a 'prelogical' mode distinct from Western logic, a position he later nuanced. His works, including 'La mentalité primitive' and 'How Natives Think,' shaped early 20th-century anthropology and the sociology of knowledge.