Beyond muscle: pedagogical meanings of corporeality

sentidos pedagógicos de la corporalidad

Abstract

This review develops a critical reading of David Le Breton's book Anthropology of the Body and Modernity, a fundamental text for understanding how the body has been thought, lived and represented in Western modernity. From an anthropological perspective, the author denaturalizes the biologicist vision of the body and situates it as a symbolic construction deeply traversed by the social, the cultural and the political. Through a dialogue with authors such as Pierre Bourdieu and Luz Elena Gallo, the contributions of the work to the field of body education are addressed, highlighting emerging knowledge that allows rethinking training from a critical pedagogy of the body. The review emphasizes the importance of recognizing the body as a territory of meaning, subjectivation and educational experience.