Jean-Marc Piotte

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

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. He was a member of the founding committee of the journal Parti pris [fr] . 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 [fr] .

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.