Enthusiasm and pride name distinct feelings a single subject of both religions must hold

Evidence

Echoing here is Lyotard’s “why are there two sensations when there is just one feeling, the sublime?” (Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, 109/Fr38). But as Lyotard goes on to explain in his commentary on the ”Analytic,” the two distinct, even contradictory sensations have everything to do with the possibility (and impossibility) of one subject: Both the beautiful and the sublime, as judgments, “are united in the same subject” (Kant, Critique of judgment, section 29). The sublime produces (and undoes) what remains one “subjective finality.” If, as Lyotard writes, “the ‘subjective’ can and must persist as the sensation of itself that accompanies any act of thinking the instant it occurs” (Lyotard, Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, 23/F38), what of the moment when two sensations, two feelings occur? What of”enthusiasm” and “pride,” then? What, in other words, would a subject of both Judaism and Islam be? — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1157

Categorization

• DEFINE: Maps the Kantian/Lyotardian aesthetics of the sublime onto the two-religions problem.