On the Body Agency and the Basic Theoretical Issues in Sport

The body is the core element of sport, which is related to the cognition and participation of sport. Through the in-depth analysis about the theoretical resources of body phenomenology, embodied cognition, new materialism, and sense of agency, the academic context of body agency is sorted out, and it is proposed to construct the body theory framework with the agency as the core. The theoretical framework includes the spontaneity, becoming and resonance of the body, which separately are the operation logic, value logic and relationship logic of body agency. Under this theoretical framework, the paper examines the basic theoretical issues such as the essence, value, content and form of sport and it is advocated that sport is the natural release of body agency, bodily becoming is the intrinsic value of sport, sport skills acquisition is to adjust the body agency to a self-consistent state, and the resonance of body is the form of existence of sport.