Wittingslow, Ryan2026-06-062026-06-060252-8169RIS:urn:EB3C316846B09595E7D6924D98C02F65ORCID:/0000-0002-6278-6489/work/216599827https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733810008Drawing 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.10en©2021 VishvanathaKaviraja Institute, IndiaThe Play’s das Thing: On the Incommensurability of Arendtian Political Action and the Kantian Sublime2021