This paper outlines Hannah Arendt’s conception of the aesthetic by way of her consideration of Franz Kafka’s work. The paper identifies the aesthetic as a communication that can be characterized by overlaying two distinctions. According to a first distinction, the communication in question is a matter of aesthetic rather than historical actuality, it is an aesthetic indeterminacy that results from a transformation of nonaesthetic determinacy. According to a second distinction, the communication is a matter of practice rather than theory, of action rather than thought, which alone can bring about the transformation in question. Overlaying these distinctions, the communication is an aesthetic action. As its performers, we are not acting together to this or that end as we would in historical action, but rather engaging in an action that takes acting together as such as its end. Its point is strictly to manifest ourselves as ‘world-builders.’