I feel like I've been responding to "I'm not a feminist, but…" since 1994; I should probably just call it "INAF-B" like a problematic, faltering government program, that has a portfolio and officers assigned to it, who specialize in its particularities.
It should be emphasized that the model in its particularities as presented here is tentative, and should be considered as a schematic rather than definitive treatment of the problem.
For Diderot, the nature the artist ought to imitate is the real nature we experience, warts and all (as it were), in its particularity.
"You seldom read a page without some concrete object being depicted in its particularity," said Dr. Lorraine Daston, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
There's an oneiric charge and intensity to many of these poems that builds to a fabular clarity of thought, which is at once precise in its particularity and placeless.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, the eminent poet approaches the universal through the universal, apprehending a snowflake, for example, not in its particularity but as linked to a continuum of snowflakes outside and inside the reader's consciousness.
With enough therapy and sufficient material comforts, even gnostic despair can become a form of disenchantment without regret, sweetened by a new enchantment with the self in its particularity.
The requirement to know humanity in its particularity and, therefore, in terms of a procedure different from those used by science to obtain knowledge of natural objects was confronted by Wilhelm Dilthey, an expounder of historical reason, who viewed "understanding" (Verstehen) as the procedure and thus as the proper method of the human sciences.
Buber thus conceives of the Dionysian primacy of life in its particularity, immediacy, and individuality and the Apollonian world of form, measure, and abstraction as inter-dependent.
In its particularity, this insight is like that of a master craftsman, who knows what is appropriate at each juncture of his practice.
Paradoxically in its particularity, attention to the local (this mountain, this river, this cycle of seasons), the pagan approach offers a way to recognize our commonality, not just with our fellow human beings but with all the life on this planet.
