Epimeleia Heautou and Truth: A Look at the Restlessness of Self in the Pandemica. Reflections for a Diagnosis of the Present

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship of the subject with the truth based on the practices linked to the Foucauldian notion of self-care in the context of the pandemic with the intention of outlining a brief diagnosis of the present. To do this, at first and following Foucault, we will start by explaining what epimeleia heautou consists  of; Later, we will return to the relationship between subject- truth given by the practices framed in self-care following the interpretation of the French philosopher of the Platonic and Hellenic moment; Finally, we will propose some reflections on the practices that occurred in the context of the pandemic and that could be traced as forms of self-care within the context of contemporary medical discourses as a form of a brief diagnosis of the present. In this sense, we defend the hypothesis that self- care today is mainly a medical issue.