ABSTRACT
The article aims to identify the convergence between David Le Breton's “sociology of the body” and the postmodern agenda. Through a literature review, it was possible to address key concepts, identify their main ideas and arguments, and critically analyze them from a critical-ontological perspective. We found that this sociology, in its attempt to overcome the dichotomy between the biological body and the 'spirit,' views it as a fiction, a realm of representations and symbols that mediate social interactions and influence individual and collective identities. Constrained by a denial of social totality and the historical subject, it assumes a dereferentialization of the real.
Keywords:
Sociology of the body; Postmodern agenda; Ontological critique; Physical Education