"The heresy of paraphrase"
 

Hayot 59: "Think of Cleanth Brooks writing against 'the heresy of paraphrase' [...] and you have some sense of how deeply runs the humanist faith in idiographism as a moral and epistemological good, and how deeply this self-proclaimedly anti-Romantic, antitheological faith is expressed, and experienced, in language that borrows from the fields of theology and romance."
> from Eric Hayot's Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. (2021)

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> created September 9, 2026 at 2:26:07 PM


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