History may include a subterranean dimension of suppressed and excluded possibilities.
Evidence
Or was history to be seen as a continual gambling away of chances, a continual missing of opportunities? In that case there would be, alongside manifest history, a kind of subterranean history, a history of possibilities which had been suppressed and excluded. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 354
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces a conceptual framework — ‘subterranean history’ as the history of possibilities never actualized — central to understanding the authors’ philosophy of history.
- SEED: Essay angle: ‘The History That Didn’t Happen’ — counterfactual and suppressed-possibility historiography from Adorno to contemporary alternate-history discourse.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno posited a subterranean history of suppressed possibilities beside manifest history. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1388; New theory requires new history that resurrects suppressed events — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1426; History can redirect itself by covert means despite the vagaries of human wills. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2419 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno posited a subterranean history of suppressed possibilities beside manifest history. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1388; New theory requires new history that resurrects suppressed events — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1426; History can redirect itself by covert means despite the vagaries of human wills. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2419 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno posited a subterranean history of suppressed possibilities beside manifest history.
#corroborates(0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1388