Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl published works on German and French philosophers (particularly Auguste Comte) and on “primitive mentality.” He occupied an intermediate position between Émile Durkheim and Henri Bergson, between the analysis of collective representations and the synthesis of perceptions of living beings, through his concept of participation. This concept captures a mode of causality that introduces the supernatural into nature at the occasion of ordinary accidents. I have showed that this concept addressed the problems posed by preparing for unpredictible events after the Dreyfus Affair in France.
