Pierre Naville

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Pierre Naville (1 February 1904,

sociologist.[1]
He was a prominent member of the "Investigating Sex" group of Surrealist thinkers.

In politics, he was a Communist and then a

Trotskyist, before joining the PSU
. He led a career as an occupational sociologist.

Early life

Naville was born in 1904 in Paris, to a family of Swiss Protestant bankers.

Surrealist from its earliest times

In 1922 he founded the avant-garde periodical L'œuf dur (The Tough Egg) together with Philippe Soupault, François Gérard, Max Jacob, Louis Aragon and Blaise Cendrars.[2]

He was co-editor with

La Révolution Surréaliste, founded the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes in (1924 and participated in surrealist activities with André Breton
before eventually opposing Surrealism because of his political divergences from the emerging Surrealist orthodoxy.

Politics

In 1926, Naville married fellow surrealist

Marxist left, devoid of Communist and Trotskyist trappings, through a publication called the Revue Internationale.[citation needed
]

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 of François Mitterrand.[citation needed]

Psycho-sociology of work

Appointed director of research at the

CNRS in 1947, he worked with Georges Friedmann at the Centre d'études sociologiques, dedicating his work to the psychosociology of work, and the study of automation, industrial society, the psychology of comportment, and the strategists and theoreticians of war, notably Carl von Clausewitz. He supervised the French translation and publication of the complete works of Clausewitz.[citation needed
]

Existentialism

He was the primary other contributor mentioned at the end of

L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism), criticising existentialism.[citation needed
]

Honours

The laboratory of research in social sciences and management at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne bears his name.[citation needed]

Works

Surrealist

  • 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) with
    Cyril Lionel Robert James
  • La Guerre du Viêt-Nam, 1949
  • Le Nouveau Léviathan, 1957–1975
  • Trotsky Vivant, 1962
  • Autogestion et Planification, 1980

Sociological

Others

  • 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, 1996

References

  1. ^ Stubb, Jeremy: Obituary: Pierre Naville, The Independent, 3 June 1993.
  2. ISBN 978-0-292-71894-4
    .
  3. ^ A. Cuenot, NAVILLE Denise, née KAHN Denise, Maitron, version posted on 30 November 2010, last modified 11 December 2020. Accessed 21 December 2020.

External links

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