The Play’s das Thing: On the Incommensurability of Arendtian Political Action and the Kantian Sublime

Wittingslow, Ryan

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The Play’s das Thing: On the Incommensurability of Arendtian Political Action and the Kantian Sublime

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2021

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Wittingslow, Ryan

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Drawing upon Hannah Arendt’s political reimagining of Kant’s aesthetics and Kant’s analysis of ‘enthusiasm’ as a modality of the sublime, I demonstrate in this paper how the Kantian sublime is incompatible with Arendt’s conception of political action.

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