[see separate note on "the law and the event"]
Hayot: "The humanist resistance to general law can be described--generally, I admit--as a resistance to logical, historical, or causal subordination or subsumption" [see note on "being an example of a process"]
for the humanist, there exists a "brute, impenetrable kernel of reality," and the "epistemological impenetrability of that kernel [preserves] the entire undebased, authentic realm of human life" (42)