Pierre Naville

Pierre Naville
Born
Pierre Louis Pyrame Naville

(1901-02-01)February 1, 1901
DiedApril 24, 1993(1993-04-24) (aged 89)
OccupationsSociologist, writer, politician, psychologist, literary critic, journalist, philosopher
Known forKey figure in the Trotskyist movement, co-editor of La Révolution surréaliste, founding father of the Sociology of Work
Notable workLa Révolution et les intellectuels (1927)
Le Nouveau Léviathan (1957–1975)
Le Traité de sociologie du travail (1961-1962)
Political partyFrench Communist Party
Communist League
French Section of the Workers' International
Revolutionary Workers' Party
Internationalist Workers' Party
Union of the Socialist Left
Unified Socialist Party
MovementSurrealism
Trotskism
SpouseDenise Naville

Pierre Naville (French: [navil]; 1 February 1904 – 24 April 1993) was a French Surrealist writer and sociologist. He was a prominent member of the "Investigating Sex" group of Surrealist thinkers.

In politics, he was a Marxist-Leninist and then a Trotskyist, before joining the PSU. He led a career as an occupational sociologist.

He was born and died in Paris.