Pierre Naville
Pierre Naville | |
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| Born | Pierre Louis Pyrame Naville February 1, 1901 |
| Died | April 24, 1993 (aged 89) |
| Occupations | Sociologist, writer, politician, psychologist, literary critic, journalist, philosopher |
| Known for | Key figure in the Trotskyist movement, co-editor of La Révolution surréaliste, founding father of the Sociology of Work |
| Notable work | La Révolution et les intellectuels (1927) Le Nouveau Léviathan (1957–1975) Le Traité de sociologie du travail (1961-1962) |
| Political party | French Communist Party Communist League French Section of the Workers' International Revolutionary Workers' Party Internationalist Workers' Party Union of the Socialist Left Unified Socialist Party |
| Movement | Surrealism Trotskism |
| Spouse | Denise 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.