Jean-Marc Piotte
Piotte in 2013
Born(1940-10-04)4 October 1940
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died11 February 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 81)
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversité de Montréal
Occupation(s)Philosopher
Professor

Jean-Marc Piotte (4 October 1940 – 11 February 2022) was a Canadian philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, and academic.[1]

Biography

After his studies in philosophy at the Université de Montréal, Piotte earned a doctorate in sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences with a thesis on the political thought of Antonio Gramsci.[2] He was a member of the founding committee of the journal Parti pris.[3] He then became director of the political science department at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), President of the Syndicat des enseignants de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, and vice-president of the National Federation of Teachers of Quebec.[4]

Piotte was a secondary school French teacher and a philosophy professor at CEGEP in addition to his career at UQAM. From 2003 to 2006, he gave a political science seminar at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. He was the author of several books ethical and political philosophy, Marxism, syndicalism, and modernity.

He died from a heart attack on 11 February 2022, at the age of 81.[5]

Books

  • La pensée politique de Gramsci (1970)
  • Québec occupé (1971)
  • Sur Lénine (1972)
  • La lutte syndicale (chez les enseignants) (1973)
  • Portraits du voyage (1974)
  • Les travailleurs contre l'État bourgeois (1975)
  • Le syndicalisme de combat (1977)
  • Marxisme et pays socialistes (1979)
  • La communauté perdue (1987)
  • Sens et politique (1990)
  • Les grands penseurs du monde occidental (1997)
  • Du combat au partenariat. Interventions critiques sur le syndicalisme québécois (1998)
  • Les Neuf Clés de la modernité (2001)
  • ADQ : à droite toute ! Le programme de l’ADQ expliqué (2003)
  • Au bout de l'impasse, à gauche. Récits de vie militante et perspectives d'avenir (2007)
  • Un certain espoir (2008)
  • Le Québec en quête de laïcité (2011)
  • Une amitié improbable. Correspondance 1963-1972 avec Pierre Vadeboncœur (2012)
  • Les Nouveaux Visages du nationalisme conservateur au Québec (2012)
  • Démocratie des urnes et démocratie de la rue. Regard sur la société et la politique (2013)
  • La Révolution des mœurs. Comment les baby-boomers ont changé le Québec (2016)

References

  1. ↑ Piotte, Jean-Marc (1940-....) (in French). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "Jean-Marc Piotte". Québec Amérique (in French). Archived from the original on 27 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Cornellier, Louis (12 October 2013). "Ce que croit Jean-Marc Piotte". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Jean-Marc Piotte". vlb éditeur (in French).
  5. ↑ Montpetit, Caroline (12 February 2022). "Le politologue Jean-Marc Piotte est décédé". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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