Boris Porshnev’s Dialectic of History

World History as Revolution: Boris Porshnev and the Experience of Dialectical Defeat

“…In the context of 7 Porshnev's more specific logical, cognitive, and archaeological explorations, which I could only allude to, cannot be disjointed from his philosophical framework and deserve to be explored on their own. A good example of this kind of engagement is Artemy Magun's recent publication, which specifically discusses Porshnev's theory of human origins and its significance for the present-day debates on the subject (Magun 2017). At the backdrop of the recent developments in cognitive archaeology, material engagement theory, etc., Porshnev's still unpublished manuscripts containing his ideas on the teleological ontology of mind may be of particular interest.…”