Um notável déficit de _bios_: Sobre a crítica hegeliana ao ideal escultórico grego

I argue that Hegel's critique of the plastic ideal in Greek sculpture provides a negative model for embodied agency. Rather than rejecting embodiment, Hegel condemns Greek sculpture for its inability to express the human body in its effectiveness, i.e., its capacity to act. Thus, I situate Hegel's position on the "beautiful harmony" of the Greeks, in which sculpture embodies the limitations and contradictions of that way of life. This will allow me to read the distinct way in which plasticity will be incorporated into human and divine individualities as a diagnosis of a form of life. I conclude by stating how Hegel neither denies human nature nor abandons the embodied condition of Spirit, but finds the truth of corporeality in the organic activity of individual agents.