Poder académico en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicasuna larga espera

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to the access of the historians to the intellectual and cultural power’s center. It will be focused on the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas during the first postwar. It will also consider their role in the construction of the regime’s support. Firstly, it will consider the role of the intellectuals in the definition of the Francoist cultural project, emphasizing the use of concepts and debates that came from the XIX century. Secondly, it will expose an approach to the rupture caused by the creation of the CSIC, as the one that took place at the University, and the recovery of an intellectual tradition that had been dormant during the previous decades. One of the main goals is trying to understand the new academicals dynamics not as a total rupture with the previous term and the building of a new orthodoxy, but as the success and the revenge of a scientific model apparently dying for the previous years, but a model which came back stronger than before to dominate the Spanish scientific scene. Lastly, it will analyze how the historic account was at the service of the different promotion opportunities that were appearing, as it is the case of the university teaching positions, with different examples from some historians at that moment.