Prof. Dr. Carlos Másmela, research fellow at International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published Del yo autista al yo poético. Una historia crítica del egocentrismo en la modernidad (Fénix, 2023). The writing takes as its starting point the centrality of the metaphysical structure of subjectivity in modern philosophy, which bases reality on the “self” and knowledge on the self-reflection that produces an understanding of itself. This grounding in the “self” disallows a ‘free’ relationship with the world, so the author investigates how this structure of subjectivity leads to an ‘autistic’ notion of the subject. In opposition to this “self” of modernity, Prof. Másmela proposes as a critical alternative the “poetic self”: the knowledge of the self that achieves a harmonious interaction with the world. This reflection, which draws on Novalis, Hölderlin, Hegel and Fichte, allows to think poetically the modern subjectivity.