История как строгая наука: опыт сциентизации исторического знания в трудах Б.Ф. Поршнева

Диалог со временем. 2019. Т. 69. № 4. С. 268–283.

Afanasiev A.

This article examines the process of history scientization experience in the USSR based on Porshnev’s concept of international affairs in the period of the Thirty Years' War. The author traces the connection between this concept and structuralism, as well as the roll-call between its historiosophy and T. Hobbes' (the problem of the emergence of sociality), C. Schmitt's (the idea of "friend-enemy") and R. Aron's (sociology of international relationships) theories. In the course of the analysis of the argumentative structure of natural-science implication, B.F. Porshnev's theory (concepts of "synchrony" and "diachrony" of the historical process, the concept of "historical experiment"), which is characterized as axiomatic, the aurhor concludes that Porshnev's persistent desire for scientific rigor and rigidity of the conceptual-categorical apparatus leads to the opposite effect - the metaphorization of language.

Keywords: структурализм, structuralism, Historical experiment, Исторический эксперимент, scientization, сциентизация, B. Porshnev, Thirty Years' War, Б.Ф. Поршнев, Тридцатилетняя война

Publication based on the results of: ‘Nature’ and ‘technology’ in the history of social and human sciences: interdisciplinary circulations and syntheses (2018)