Pierre Naville 3616537 221601238 2008-06-25T06:37:11Z Charles Matthews 12978 rewrite lead '''Pierre Naville''' ([[Paris]], [[1904]] — [[Paris]], [[1993]]) was a French [[writer]] and [[sociologist]]. A [[Surrealist]], 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 [[Unified Socialist Party|PSU]]. He led a career as an occupational sociologist. ==Surrealist 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]] and [[Blaise 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 with [[André Breton]] before eventually opposing Surrealism because of his political divergences. ==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 for [[deviationism]]. From this point onwards he participated in the life of the French [[Trotskyist]] 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 a [[Marxist]] 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 of [[François Mitterrand]]. ==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 the war, notably [[Carl 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== ===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=== *''De la Guerre'', translated from [[Carl Von Clausewitz]] with [[Denise Naville]] and [[Camille 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'' with [[Jean-Pierre Bardou]], [[Philippe Brachet]] and [[Catherine Lévy]], 1971 *''Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui'', 1981 ===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 ==External links== The laboratory of research in social sciences and management at [http://www.univ-evry.fr University d'Evry] bears his name. ==Source== This article was directly copied and translated from the version at [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Naville http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Naville] although may have deviated since. {{DEFAULTSORT:Naville, Pierre}} [[Category:1904 births]] [[Category:1993 deaths]] [[Category:Surrealist writers]] [[de:Pierre Naville]] [[es:Pierre Naville]] [[eo:Pierre Naville]] [[fr:Pierre Naville]] [[it:Pierre Naville]] [[ru:Навилль, Пьер]]