Jean-Jacques Cadet

Jean-Jacques Cadet, who holds a PhD in Philosophy from Paris 8 University, is a Professor and researcher at the State University of Haiti and Quisqueya University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Université Paris Cité (2025-2026) and a Visiting Researcher at Université Laval (2024). He has also completed several research stays at international institutions, including the Institute of Research for Development (IRD Montpellier, France), Ibn Zohr University of Agadir (Morocco), and the University of Chicago (United States).

Highly active within the International College of Philosophy (CIPH) in Paris, he was elected Program Director in 2022 and a member of its Council in 2026. There, he leads the seminar “Epistemology, Marxism, and Ecology in the French-speaking Caribbean.” He also serves on the editorial board of the journal Rue Descartes, where he co-directs the Épistémè section. He is currently coordinating a research project entitled “Hegel, Marx, and Dussel” in collaboration with Olivier Clain (Université Laval). In addition, he is an Associate Researcher at the AIHP-GEODE Laboratory (Industrial Archaeology, History and Heritage / Geography, Development, and Environment of the Caribbean) at the University of the French West Indies in Martinique.

His research examines the conceptual frameworks of postcolonial and decolonial movements in order to rethink the question of emancipation. His guiding heuristic thread is based on the reception of Karl Marx within the Black radical tradition, through major figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Jacques Roumain, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Cedric Robinson. He pays particular attention to Caribbean thinkers who succeed in establishing genuine dialogues with Western intellectuals within a process of epistemic decolonization. Finally, through the lens of ecology and science, his work more broadly explores the intellectual and political movements that shape the Caribbean region.