Lévy-Bruhl

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Lévy-Bruhl mainly in connection with the notion of "prelogical mentality," which he links to an ethnocentric ethnology1. He faults him for having had "the nerve" to apply this term to the mentality of peoples without writing2. In a session devoted to Debussy, he places him before Lévi-Strauss, to mark what separates the two approaches3. He also points out that Lévy-Bruhl himself revised his theses. In the sessions on Adotevi and the critique of Negritude, he sees in the Notebooks an epistemological break between the work on primitive thought and this critical reconsideration4. He draws from this an argument against Senghor: the theories of Negritude take up theses that their author had already abandoned5. Lévy-Bruhl thus serves him as an example in two respects: that of an ethnocentric category, and that of an author capable of going back on his own positions.

1. 1#4.8 Angélique (de Nerval)16 May 2018 · 34:32
2. 2#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:14:34
3. 3Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 42:12
4. 4Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (2)17 Jun 2017 · 0:55
5. 5Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017 · 4:19

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.