Gianfranco Casuso is a professor in the Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he also directs the Research Group on Critical Theory. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt.
His work focuses on political and social philosophy, the philosophy of economics, theories of democracy, and modern philosophy, especially German idealism. He currently researches on property and extractivism in countries with a colonial past, as well as issues of economic informality, the popular economy, and solidarity economy. He currently directs the project: Property Regimes, Extractive Industry, and Autonomous Government: An Interdisciplinary Proposal for Theoretical Construction Based on the Analysis of Three Cases in Peru, funded by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
His latest publications are: “Countering the Pathologies of Recognition: Towards an Inferentialist-Expressivist Strategy for Social Critique” (in European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 2025), “Social Criticism as the Foundation of Democracy: Two Pragmatist Models and the Need to Generate Problems” (in Democratizing Social Critique: Social and Political Philosophy after James Bohman, Routledge, 2025) “Marxism, Pragmatism and the Precedents of Mariátegui's Critical Thought: Reflections on the Emergence of Social Criticism in Peru.” (in Global Critical Theories, Springer, 2025).
