Jean-Marc Piotte (4 October 1940 – 11 February 2022) was a Canadian philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, and academic.[1]
Jean-Marc Piotte | |
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 Piotte in 2013 | |
| Born | 4 October 1940 |
| Died | 11 February 2022 (aged 81) |
| Education | Université de Montréal |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher Professor |
Biography
editAfter 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Piotte, Jean-Marc (1940-....) (in French).
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Jean-Marc Piotte". Québec Amérique (in French). Archived from the original on 27 March 2014.
- ^ Cornellier, Louis (12 October 2013). "Ce que croit Jean-Marc Piotte". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "Jean-Marc Piotte". vlb éditeur (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- ^ Montpetit, Caroline (12 February 2022). "Le politologue Jean-Marc Piotte est décédé". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2022.