Greek culture’s wholeness is only graspable through the ideal of sculpture

Evidence

The Greek concept of ‘form-creation’ (Formtätigkeit) assumes that selfdetermination is to be thought in terms of the becoming essential of the accident which finds sensuous representation in the ‘exemplary individual’. On the other hand, the modern concept of plasticity seems to join itself with a concept of self-determination conceived as the becoming accidental of essence, the very development in which the fundamental significance of the Incarnation is expressed. Kenosis is the movement through which God, by positing Himself in exteriority and becoming alien to Himself, achieves the fulfilment of His being and becomes at once predicate and accident. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 859 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Classical Greece presents the manifest and tangible forms of free individuality in all its serene and unbroken harmony; Greek art remains alien to the experience of heartbreak. The Christian God, on the other hand, is not only an individual gifted with a human form, but a human in actuality and act, exposed to all the vicissitudes of our existence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 842 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Christian God’s vulnerability is what Greek art cannot represent — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 842; Historicism held that each culture forms a coherent whole penetrable only by sympathy; Plasticity inverts the Greek form-creation into the becoming-accidental of essence — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 859 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity inverts the Greek form-creation into the becoming-accidental of essence #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 859
• Historicism held that each culture forms a coherent whole penetrable only by sympathy #expands (0.78)
• The Christian God’s vulnerability is what Greek art cannot represent #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 842
• Combining passion and intellect drove the exceptional greatness of the Greeks #corroborates (0.72) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 143