Abstract:For decades, many scholars in the humanities have set themselves against generalizations, valuing instead what is local, resistant, exceptional, nuanced, situated, concrete, embodied, and specific. Both close reading and historicizing, two of the major methods in literary studies, emphasize singularity, strangeness, and heterogeneity. This essay argues that the antigeneralizing imperative has also brought with it a moralizing of the large scale, and has prevented the humanities from participating in imagining and building fairer, more egalitarian forms for collective life. It proposes a formalist reading method that embraces generalizations for the common good.

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模范思维：概括，政治形式和共同利益

摘要：几十年来，许多人文学科的学者都反对概括，而是重视局部的，反抗的，特殊的，细微的，细微的，处在的，具体的，具体的和具体的。文学研究的两种主要方法，即近距离阅读和历史化，都强调奇异性，陌生性和异质性。本文认为，反犹太化的命令也带来了大规模的道德化，并阻止了人类参与为集体生活设想和建立更公平，更平等的形式。它提出了一种形式主义的阅读方法，该方法包含了对公共利益的概括。