Mauro Basaure (Santiago, Chile 1973) received his PhD at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. He is full Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Critical Theory and Contemporary Society (TECSA) at the Universidad Andrés Bello, in Santiago de Chile. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies. Conicyt/Fondap/15130009. He has been an associate researcher at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His areas of research, teaching and publication include social theory, critical theory, contemporary French sociology, and political philosophy.