Bio

Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He completed his doctoral work in philosophy at the New School for Social Research.

He is the author of five books: Rastafari Cosmology and the Ethos of Blackness (Columbia University Press, 2023) Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel (University of the West Indies Press, 2018), Reflections on Jean Améry: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind’s Limits (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), Kierkegaard: History and Eternal Happiness (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism (Peter Lang, 2007). He has also published peer-reviewed articles in Gnosis, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Souls, and the CLR James Journal.

He was a Scholar-in-Residence at Hertford College, University of Oxford during Summer 2015.