Given that historical subjects experience a multiplicity of temporalities, how should scholars themselves keep time? What should they consider when selecting one temporality over another? In this article, I examine scholarship that attempts to reconcile marking time with the analysis of change over time. Before beginning this analysis, I recount how the anno Domini era became the standard for marking time. I then discuss scholarship by Fernand Braudel and David Harvey in order to establish the general sociohistorical recognition that time is a multiplicity experienced differently by its subjects. In doing so, I tease out the irony of scholars accepting temporality as a multiplicity yet nonetheless using the anno Domini calendar system to mark time in their scholarship. I then take up work by Randall Collins, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Hayden White, laying bare the ways in which they present a series of divergent possibilities for marking time in history that in turn call attention to its irreducible multiplicity. I read these scholars as invested in determining how to create and write with a language that is suitable for studying historical change over time but that does not rely on the assumption that time itself is something monolithic and prioritized above the Weltanschauungen of historical subjects. After presenting their models, I discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Finally, I close this article with a meditation on the dynamics of knowledge production in the historical guild vis-à-vis the possibilities and prospects of marking time differently in scholarship.

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标记时间和书写历史

鉴于历史学科经历了多重时间性，学者们自己应该如何把握时间？在选择一种时间性而不是另一种时间性时，他们应该考虑什么？在本文中，我研究了试图将标记时间与随时间变化的分析相协调的学术研究。在开始分析之前，我先回顾一下纪元多米尼时代如何成为标记时间的标准。然后，我讨论了 Fernand Braudel 和 David Harvey 的学术研究，以建立普遍的社会历史认识，即时间是其主体经历的不同体验的多样性。在这样做时，我梳理出学者们接受时间性作为多样性但仍然使用anno Domini的讽刺日历系统来标记他们的奖学金时间。然后我接手了兰德尔柯林斯、迪佩什查克拉巴蒂和海登怀特的工作，揭示了他们呈现出一系列不同的可能性来标记历史时间的方式，这些可能性反过来又引起人们对其不可简化的多重性的关注。我认为这些学者致力于确定如何用一种适合研究随着时间的推移的历史变化的语言进行创作和写作，但这并不依赖于时间本身是一个整体并优先于世界观的假设的历史题材。在介绍了他们的模型之后，我讨论了每种方法的相对优势和劣势。最后，我通过沉思历史行会中知识生产的动态以及在学术中以不同方式标记时间的可能性和前景来结束这篇文章。