Hayot 58: "You see it [the focus on particularity and 'the orientation of the humanities toward certain forms of value'] in the emphasis on close reading in the New Criticsm, or in psychoanalysis or deconstructive criticism, in the New Historicism's love for the 'incommensurable specificity of the anecdote,' in the historical or sociological case study, in biography, in the 'microhistory' of Carlo Ginzburg or Jacques Revel"
"and especially in the inheritances of French poststructuralist theory, with its emphasis on the uncategorizable, the unsystematizable [...] the Kristeva of Revolution of Poetic Language, Lyotard's rejection of metanarrative, the constant emphasis on play, paradox, catachresis, and undecideability in Badiou's 'event,' Derrida's neologistic avoidance of his own regularization, Foucault's emphsis on epistemological and sexual singularities, on that which cannot be captured by the laws and rules of social organization, and so on"