Individual.

Professor Bloom on preposterous "-isms" (from 2015) ...

Our burden as teachers now, even someone as old as I am, is in a sense something beyond our ability to teach.  There is a vast change in the cultural climate, which has devalued the very difficult act of solitary deep reading. 

Whether you call it feminism, which is not really feminism, has nothing to do with equal rights for women, or whether you call it transgenderism, or ethnicity, or Marxism, or any of these French manifestations, be it deconstruction or one mode of differential linguistics or another, or whether you call it -- what I think is mislabeled -- the new historicism, because it's neither new nor historicism, but simply a dilution of Foucault, a man whom I knew and liked personally, but whose influence I think has been pernicious, just as Derida's, with whom I also shared a friendship until eventually we broke with each other. All these "isms" are preposterous of course; they have nothing to do with the study of literature or with its originality. As I've said before, the aesthetic is an individual and not a social concern.