Aguilar Mora studied Hispanic language and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received his doctorate from El Colegio de México.
He had to leave the country and settled in Paris with a scholarship, where he established a relationship with Roland Barthes, who became his teacher.
Aguilar Mora spread Barthes' ideas and put him in contact with other Mexican intellectuals, whom he influenced.
Its critical nature gave a twist to the academic literature that had been written until then about Paz.
[4] Among his students was Gabriela Brimmer, whom Aguilar Mora encouraged to write poetry.