Hayot 57: "There is [...] no humanities without the intense focus on particularities"
"no humanities without a strong resistance to universalizing, totalizing, generalization, or simplification ... and no humanities, therefore, that is not prone to a great deal of anxiety about the status of its own knowledge-production, nor to making heavily moralized claims about the nature of its epistemological relation to its objects, and about its general 'value' to civil or democratic society"
see, for instance, Helen H. Small's The Value of the Humanities (2016)