Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Un acte manqué Nord-Sud
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4952138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | René Lourau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 155-168 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | L Homme et la société (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-4306 • E-ISSN: 2101-0226 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/homso.1992.2670 |
| OpenAlex | W2334369733 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
René Lourau, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl : A Reconsideration Revealed in his Posthumous Writings The anthropological work of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was based on the idea of essential differences, an assumption that led him to implicitly justify the domination of colonizers over the colonized. But at the end of his long life, Lévy-Bruhl realized that he had made a mistake in concluding that the affective, mythical or mystical "participations" composing the "primitive mentality" were typical of an "inferior" or "prelogical" mentality. The "civilized mentality" was equally composed of affects or myths, however different
Art · Literature · Mistake · Mysticism · Mythology · Political science · Sociology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2000 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |