ABSTRACT
Historical scholarship depends on the structure-logic inherent in its axiomatic principles: causality, sufficient rationality, and identity. The coherence afforded by categorical coordinators produces the bureaucratic, managerial procedures dependent on the "administrative gaze", the "monographic view" that sustains the historical account. The coherence of historical discourse is fundamentally technical, formal, and self-referential. The dynamics of historicity are affirmed at the expense of freedom and future possibilities. Reconciling dynamic forces with coherent structures by means of stabilizing components, historical discourse will make sense. Categorical coordinators, determines the arrangement of issues formulated in the historical text, typically as sustaining the premises of the argument, as means of accounting, as summaries of outcomes. Categorical coordinators also implicitly determine the structure of the historical topic, the scope of the historian's administrative or monographic perspective, the way the historical topic is a priori constituted, the type of 'psychic additions'.
