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NEUVALD, Luciane  e  BRANCHER, Carlos Eduardo Laurentino. The civilizing process in the context of bourgeois society and the body: challenges to education. Acta Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.1, e62298.  Epub 01-Dez-2024. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v46i1.62298.

This paper meditates about the civilizing process in bourgeois society, its results in relation for the body and the challenges that this context presents to education. The theoretical framework is supported by the critical theory of society, in Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer ideas. For these authors, the civilizing process promotes a reason with dominant and autocratic characteristics, impassive to the sensitive sphere of life, insofar as civilization overlaps nature, in an attempt to protect itself from it. The civilizing process requires the sacrifice and resignation of subjects, who need to give up pleasure and their identity in advantage of interests of the system. Therefore, pleasure is destitute of its genuine form and takes place in a substitutive way, under mediation of the cultural industry. The sacrifice that the civilizing process requires from the subject, falls on his relationship with his body, with the cultural industry being a supreme reference in the construction of body image, building models of beauty, diet, exercises and behaviors. The negative dialectic, characteristic of the theoretical approach chosen, focuses on the immanent critique of the civilizing process, as this, in addition to implying sacrifice and renunciation, also implies the exploration of heteronomy. awareness about the planned exploration of the body is the role of education, as well as the constitution of a body imagery resistant to the body models idealized by the cultural industry and the assumption of body identity, intrinsic to each person.

Palavras-chave : body; education; cultural industry; critical theory of society.

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