This book presents two important works - on the nature of primitive thinking and on the driving forces of mythological consciousness, written by the outstanding French philosopher and anthropologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl (1857-1939). Levy-Brühl believes that in some areas primitive thinking manifests itself qualitatively differently from the thinking of a modern civilized person. He called it pralogical thinking. Such thinking, in his opinion, is characterized by insensitivity to contradictions, impermeability to experience, subordination to the law of "participation" (involvement). At the same time, pralogical thinking does not exhaust all the manifestations of the intellect of a primitive person.