The care of writing and reading for philosophical education at school

Abstract

This theoretical essay problematizes the relations between truth and subjectivation considering Seneca and Foucault studies. Based on Foucault’s genealogy of subjectivation, the relation between truth and subjectivation in the present involves more than knowing the self, taking care of the self, or controlling the self. I argue that, we live an important displacement of the practices of the self, which can be called perform the self in the contemporary stultitia. In such displacement, knowledge is reduced to an exchanged object and a poor narrative. Thus, the potentiality of philosophical education at school through practices of writing and reading is taken as resistance against a neoliberal and neoconservative present that limits these practices to an instrumental pragmatism and assessment rates.