Gianfranco Casuso is Associate Professor of Philosophy and director of the Research Group on Critical Theory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He received his PhD with a dissertation on deliberative democracy and social exclusion under the direction of Axel Honneth and Rainer Forst at the University of Frankfurt (2012). His areas of research include Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, German Idealism, Philosophy of the Human Rights, and Critical Theory. He is the author of Dimensionen der Exklusion. Sozialphilosophische Beiträge zu Macht und Demokratie (Karl Alber, 2013), coeditor of Las armas de la crítica (Anthropos, 2018), and has published several articles in academic journals.