Georges Friedmann
See also: Friedmann
Georges Philippe Friedmann (Paris, 1902 - Paris 1977), sociologist French.
He was the founder, after the Second world war of a sociology of humanistic work. After studies in industrial chemistry, it entered to the National university of the street of Ulm in 1923. It was during the war a Marxist intellectual , near to the French Communist party. It devoted most of its work to the study of the relations of the man with the machine in the industrial society of first half of the 20th century.
A large sociologist, initiator and mediator
Its work and its works as work in crumbs (1956) often reduced it to be presented like a sociologist of work. It is true that, as of 1931, it tackled the problems presented by work and the techniques. In 1946, its thesis, Problems of industrial mechanization , introduced, in France, the new sociology of work. At that time, he already is recognized by his American pars and itself made known in France great work of the sociologists of on the other side of the Atlantic. But the course of Georges Friedmann and his work exceeds this single identity of sociologist of work. With the beginnings of the year 1960, it explores another field of the technical culture: communications and mass culture. With the head of the Center of sociological studies (CNRS), it appears a large organizer and initiator of research.
An intellectual in the century
At the time of the rise of the Fascism in the years 1930, Georges Friedmann, like certain intellectuals of this time, wonders about the Soviet experiment. He learns Russian with the Institut from the Eastern languages. Between 1932 and 1936, it accomplishes several stays in the USSR. It draws from them two works, in which it expresses its critical support with regard to the mode of Moscow.
The declaration of war and the signature of the pact germano-Soviet, lead it to begin in resistance, at the sides of Jean Cassou. It appears a man of action then. It represents its experiment in its Journal of war , published by Gallimard in 1987, ten years after its death.
After Second world war the account among the fellow travellers and sympathizers of the USSR. It contributes, with other companions, like Vercors, Jean Cassou, André Chamson, with the drafting of the work the Hour of the choice, written in 1946 and published in 1947. This one can be briefly summarized by the sentence “the USSR is an example but not a model. ”
A philosopher
Georges Friedmann, philosophical of formation, always has, throughout his course, taken care to maintain the bonds between sociology and great Western metaphysical philosophy. Large reader of Leibniz and Spinoza, it delivers his reflections of a moral and philosophical nature on the future of civilization technician in the power and wisdom , published in 1970.
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