Both Buddhist and Western thought collapse individual and universal despite opposite aims

Evidence

Paradoxically, in Buddhist thought, in which the aim is to dissolve the individual within the AlI, there is only individuation. In Western systems of thought, solicitous of the dignity of the human individual and originating with individual adventure, there ends up being-another paradox-only generalization. Philosophies based on the One bear within them the embryo of History (wh ether Natural History or the History of Humanity). — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 294

Categorization

• XREF: This double-paradox is a candidate for the reader’s mechanism question: where individual dissolution and individual dignity both yield totalizing frames, relation (Glissant’s own answer) is what escapes.