Spivak and the "singular" literary case
 

Spivak: "Our concern is [...] to ask what makes literary cases singular. The singular is the always universalizable, never the universal. The site of reading is to make the singular visible in its ability."
 
Hayot (74) categorizes this as deploying a sort of "Kantian language"
> from Eric Hayot's Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. (2021)

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