Hélder Telo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Nova University of Lisbon), where he is developing a research project on art of living and the relation to truth in Plato, Nietzsche and Foucault. He was awarded his PhD at the Nova University of Lisbon in 2018, after writing a thesis on Plato’s critique of unexamined life. He conducted part of his doctoral research at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2009-10 and 2014) and Boston College (2010-11). He received several research grants, including a doctoral fellowship from the Collaborative Research Center 1015 Muße/Otiose leisure (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg). After his PhD, he has been working on questions such as the desire for truth, care and emotions in ancient and contemporary philosophy. His latest publications include Relational Self-Care in Aristotle: A Foucaultian and Feminist Reading” (Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 2020) and “Emoções Quotidianas e Emoções Éticas em Aristóteles e Heidegger” [“Everyday Emotions and Ethical Emotions in Aristotle and Heidegger”] (Filosofia Unisinos, 2020).
