Modalities of the sublime modal categories between reason, understanding and sensibility

Kant distinguishes between the «mathematical» and the «dynamical» Sublime: the former is experienced by the disproportion in size between the viewer and what is given to her sight, the latter by unlimited forces deployed by nature. However, Kant’s «dynamical» categories include modal notions also; in facts, there exists a Sublime that is essentially marked by them, too. One can experience it by purely intellectual means (without prejudice for any artistic attempt to transpose it into a visual or otherwise sensible field), namely by reading some philosophical texts – such as Plato’s Parmenides, Hegel’s Science of Logic, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus – where possibility and necessity play an ambivalent role: to checkmate understanding on the one hand, and to raise it to a superior comprehension on the other, namely to reason.