Kant’s sublime is constitutively tied to political and religious power.

Evidence

The feeling of the sublime may thus be distinguished from “subjection, abasement and a feeling of complete powerlessness,” but this distinction testifies to the way in which Kant’s exploration of such phenomena is in fact linked-even if not “necessarily linked”-with the question of political and religious power (Macht or Gewalt) (section 28; emphasis added). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 604

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 604