- Pierre Naville
Pierre Naville (
Paris , 1904 —Paris , 1993) was a Frenchwriter andsociologist . ASurrealist , he was a prominent member of the 'Investigating Sex' group of Surrealist thinkers.In politics, he was a
Communist and then aTrotskyist , before joining the PSU. He led a career as an occupational sociologist.urrealist from its earliest times
In 1922 he founded the avant-garde periodical "l'Œuf dur" together with
Philippe Soupault , F. Gérard,Max Jacob ,Louis Aragon andBlaise Cendrars .He was co-editor with
Benjamin Péret for the three first numbers of "La Révolution Surréaliste ", founded the "Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes" (1924) and participated in surrealist activities withAndré Breton before eventually opposing Surrealism because of his political divergences from the emerging Surrealist orthodoxy.Extreme-left politics
In 1926 Naville joined to the French Communist Party, for which he managed the publication "Clarté". He was part of a delegation which visited
Leon Trotsky in Moscow in 1927. He returned convinced by Trotsky's arguments and was expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 fordeviationism . From this point onwards he participated in the life of the FrenchTrotskyist extreme left and notably its publications. However, he became less and less convinced by Trotsky's position and broke with the group in 1939. He then organised attempts to create aMarxist left, devoid of Communist and Trotskyist trappings, whose publication was called "Revue Internationale".Initially passing through the PSU, Naville continued to search for a modern left in the PSG, then the UGS, before taking part in the re-establishment of the Parti Socialiste Unifié (PSU) under the
Fifth Republic . He remained loyal to this party in spite of his opposition to the "realists" (Gilles Martinet ,Michel Rocard ) and showed total rejection ofFrançois Mitterrand .Psycho-Sociology of Work
Appointed director of research at the
CNRS in 1947, he worked withGeorges Friedmann at the "Centre d'études sociologiques", dedicating his work to the psychosociology of work and the study ofautomation ,industrial society , the psychology of comportment, and the strategists and theoreticians of the war, notablyCarl von Clausewitz . He supervised the French translation and publication of the Complete Works of von Clausewitz.Existentialism
He was the primary other contributor mentioned at the end of Jean-Paul Satre's Existentialism and Humanism, criticising
existentialism .Works
urrealist
*"Les Reines de la main gauche", 1924
Political
*"La Révolution et les Intellectuels", 1926
*"Les Jacobins noirs (Toussaint-Louverture et la Révolution de Saint-Domingue)" withCyril Lionel Robert James
*"La Guerre du Viêt-Nam", 1949
*"Le Nouveau Léviathan", 1957-1975
*"Trotsky Vivant", 1962
*"Autogestion et Planification", 1980ociological
*"De la Guerre", translated from
Carl Von Clausewitz withDenise Naville andCamille Rougeron
*"La Psychologie, science du comportement", 1942
*"Psychologie, marxisme, matérialisme", 1948
*"La Chine Future", 1952
*"La Vie de Travail et ses Problèmes", 1954
*"Essai sur la Qualification du Travail", 1956
*"Le Traité de Sociologie du Travail", 1961-1962
*"L'État entrepreneur: le cas de la régie Renault" withJean-Pierre Bardou ,Philippe Brachet andCatherine Lévy , 1971
*"Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui", 1981Others
*Memoirs ("Le Temps du surréel", 1977)
Books about Pierre Naville
*"Des sociologies face à Pierre Naville ou l'archipel des savoirs" - Centre Pierre Naville
*"Les logiques de la découverte et celles de l'action par Pierre Rolle" in: "Pierre Naville, la passion de la connaissance" - Michel Eliard, Presses universitaires de Toulouse-le-Mirail, 1996External links
The laboratory of research in social sciences and management at [http://www.univ-evry.fr University d'Evry] bears his name.
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