SUCH MARXIST HERITAGE IN THE RECENT DEBATE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This paper analyzes aspects of the emergence and development of a Marxist approach in Brazilian Physical Education. For this purpose, it firstly reconstructs the course of the concept body culture from Europe to Brazil. Aligning with the Cold War debates and tensions, such an approach reaches the country in competition and correspondence with others, such as movement culture and movement body culture. This all makes up the Renewing Movement in Physical Education, whose main answer is the achievement of a critical Physical Education, in the context of redemocratization. In the following, the paper briefly comments on the theme of the body and its education by Marx and Gramsci, and examines some aspects of the concept of body culture in an internal view of Marxism itself. Finally, it points to a dialectical deficit and suggests, even in the framework of Marx, possibilities for interpretation and proposition of body education.