Fields shift from founding pioneers to institutional systematizers

Evidence

The difference between Sacy and Renan is the difference between inauguration and continuity. Sacy is the originator, whose work represents the field’s emergence and its status as a nineteenth-century discipline with roots in revolutionary Romanticism. Renan derives from Orientalism’s second generation: it was his task to solidify the official discourse of Orientalism, to systematize its insights, and to establish its intellectual and worldly institutions. For Sacy, it was his personal efforts that launched and vitalized the field and its structures; for Renan, it was his adaptation of Orientalism to philology and both of them to the intellectual culture of his time that perpetuated the Orientalist structures intellectually and gave them greater visibility. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 347

Categorization

• XREF: A valuable generic distinction (inauguration vs. continuity/ institutionalization) that applies to the later Islamophobia field readings and to any discipline’s second-generation consolidation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 347