Levy-Bruhl himself repudiated his law of primitive participation

Evidence

At this point one gives a start. One reminds M. Caillois that the famous law of participation invented by Levy-Bruhl was repudiated by Levy-Bruhl himself; that in the evening of his life he proclaimed to the world that he had been wrong in “trying to define a characteristic that was peculiar to the primitive mentality so far as logic was concerned” — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 217

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the scaffolding vocabulary — challenges the colonial ‘primitive mentality’ binary that later Islamophobia readings critique.
• DEFINE: Introduces Levy-Bruhl’s ‘law of participation’ as the anthropological claim that the colonial mind vs. primitive mind divide rested on.