Cincunegui, J. M. (in press, 2026). La vida en la historia. Más allá de la biología, la fenomenología y las ciencias cognitivas. Dado Ediciones.
Capitalist modernity, by reshaping the material and institutional order, also imposed a way of thinking: a rationality that conceives of life as a system, knowledge as a function, language as coordination, and politics as the management of the given. Within this framework, anything that intrudes from the outside—suffering, otherness, injustice—tends to be absorbed, neutralized, or silenced.
Life in History explores this problem through one of its most influential contemporary theoretical expressions: enactivism. Based on a critical analysis of its main sources—cybernetics, the theory of autopoiesis, the phenomenological tradition, and the cognitive sciences—the book shows how even attempts to overcome modern dualism can become trapped in a logic of closure that prevents us from conceiving of a radical exteriority.
But this is not merely a book on epistemology or cognitive science. It is, above all, an ethical and political inquiry. Faced with a rationality that seeks to integrate, regulate, or render functional every difference, the work poses a decisive question: what happens to that which cannot be integrated without being reduced, neutralized, or violated.
Building on this question, Life in History proposes a reopening of thought: not from within the system, but from the exteriority that challenges it in the name of a justice that calls into question its claim to totalization.