Dr. Gustavo Leyva is Full-time Professor and Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus, in Mexico City since 1989. Master's degree in Romanic Studies and PhD in Philosophy from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany, with a DAAD scholarship. Postdoctoral fellowship at the Philosophisches Seminar of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the Institut für Philosophie of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001-2003). Professor/Researcher in the Universidade Federal do ABC (Brazil) in the Center for Natural and Human Sciences (2013-2014). Research period in the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe Universität in Bad Homburg (2019-2020), in both cases funded by a Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. President of the SEKLE (Society for Kantian Studies in Spanish Language) for the 2018-2022 period. Currently, a Level III member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI).

Principal lines of Research:

a. Historical-systematics

a.1. Study of the emergence, reception, and critique of German Idealism from Kant to Nietzsche.

a.2. Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Critical Theory: research on the relations among Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Critical Theory in the areas of Practical Philosophy, Esthetics, and the Philosophy of History, addressing discussions with some currents of Analytical Philosophy, Poststructuralism, and Pragmatism.

b. Systematics

b.1. Ethics and Political Philosophy: Reception and critique of classical German Philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates in Ethics and Political Philosophy with a focus on issues generated within, and from, philosophy written in German from Kant to Habermas and their reception and critique in contemporary debates.

b.2. Philosophy of the Social Sciences: research on lines of reflection associated with Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Analytical Philosophy, and Pragmatism.

Important publications include: Intersubjetividad y Gusto (Mexico: Miguel Ángel Porrúa-UAM, 2002), and the editions of Política, identidad y narración (Mexico: Miguel Ángel Porrúa-UAM, 2003), La Teoría Crítica y las tareas actuales de la crítica (Barcelona: Anthropos-UAM, 2005), La filosofía de la acción (Madrid: Síntesis-UAM, 2008), Cosmopolitismo. democracia en la era de la globalización (co-edited with Dulce María Granja: Barcelona: Anthropos-UAM, 2009), ¿Existe el orden? la norma, la ley y la transgresión (co-edited with Ramón Alvarado and Sergio Pérez Cortés: Barcelona: Anthropos-UAM, 2010), Independencia y revolución: pasado, presente y futuro (co-edited with Brian Connaughton, Rodrigo Díaz, Néstor García Canclini, and Carlos Illades: Mexico: FCE-UAM, 2010), Tratado de metodología de las Ciencias Sociales (co-edited with Enrique de la Garza, Mexico: FCE-UAM, 2012), La filosofía en México en el siglo XX. Un ensayo de reconstrucción histórico-sistemática (Mexico: Secretaría de Cultura/FCE, 2018), Los rostros de la razón. Immanuel Kant desde Hispanoamérica (with Álvaro Peláez and Pedro Stepanenko: UAM/UNAM/Anthropos. Barcelona-Mexico, 2018), Karl Marx: el hombre, el revolucionario y el teórico (2 vols.), co-edited with Sergio Pérez Cortés and Jorge Rendón (2021), editor of Walter Benjamin. Hacia la Crítica de la Violencia (Mexico: Gedisa, 2022), Guía Kant Comares (Granada: Comares, 2023), Las Ciencias Sociales revisitadas (Mexico: UAM/Gedisa, 2024, available at: https://libroscecsh.izt.uam.mx/index.php/libros/catalog/view/562/77/448 ) and (with Oliver Kozlarek): Global Critical Theories, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025).

Also deserving of mention are his editions and translations of:

Kant y el problema de la metafísica by Martin Heidegger (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, FCE, 2013)
Fenomenología del Espíritu by G.W.F. Hegel. Review of the translation by Wenceslao Roces and Ricardo Guerra, edition, notes, glossary, indexes, postface, and bibliography by Gustavo Leyva (Mexico: FCE, 2017).

Hacia la paz perpetua by Immanuel Kant, in the context of the “Biblioteca Immanuel Kant” developed by the Iztapalapa Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico: FCE, 2018).

La Miseria de la Filosofía de Karl Marx. México: Siglo XXI Editores, 2023.