Academic history reabsorbed revolutionary newness back into serial continuity

Evidence

By the second quarter of the nineteenth century History had become formally constituted as a ‘discipline,’ with its own elaborate array of professional journals. Very quickly the Year One made way for 1792 A.D., and the revolutionary ruptures of 1776 and 1789 came to be figured as embedded in the historical series and thus as historical precedents and models. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 724

Categorization

• XREF: The invention of History-as-discipline as a nation-making apparatus connects to how modern states fabricate genealogies for citizens and exclude others from the series. — connects to: Intellectual change proceeds through uneven breaks rather than tradition or rupture — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 180; Intellectuals revise their own published history to appease a new regime — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1935; Academic theory domesticated 1960s political dissent into textual culture — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 23

Related

• Intellectual history advances through uneven breaks, not traditions or clean ruptures (similarity 0.81)
• Intellectual change proceeds through uneven breaks rather than tradition or rupture (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual change proceeds through uneven breaks rather than tradition or rupture #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 180