Abstract
Abstract The aim of this paper is to define the act itself of making gestures in its implication for human condition. Departing from Johann Jakob Engel′s definition of gestures as movements toward real external objects, the first part of this paper defines objects as everything opposed to the subject or to the present condition of the body, in line with Sartre and the epistemological tradition. The second part then investigates the relation of gesture with its possibilities to reach objects, that is, its ability to be concrete actions as well. Starting from biblical image of the sacrifice of Isaac, gesture is defined as the rejection of being an action, in order to be ascribed to the Aristotelian category of power. Hence, gesture is what makes us perceive both the present condition of human body and its possibilities.
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