When1: 1922
When2: 1926
Who: Lucien Lévy-Bruhl [Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien]
What: philosopher/anthropologist
Where: Paris, France
works\ Primitive Mentality [1922]; How Natives Think [1926]
Detail: He lived 1857 to 1939. Primitive mentality is imaginative and emotional {prelogical society}, comes from cultural collective representations, and mixes with objects {law of participation} {mystical participation}. Modern mentality is logical, comes from experience, and is separate from objects. Both forms are appropriate.
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