He also put his signature to Larisa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov's "Appeal to the World Public Opinion" in protest of Trial of the Four.

[3][6] In addition to official articles, which focused on the spiritual traditions of India and China, Pomerants began to write essays on historical and social topics.

[9] They were also reprinted in the western émigré magazines Kontinent, Sintaksis and Strana i Mir, and a collection of essays under the title Neopublikovannoe (Unpublished Works) was published in 1972 in Frankfurt.

Pomerants's three of four talks paid homage to the civilization created by the interaction of all nations, East and West, over the course of millennia.

Pomerants is a man of rare independence, integrity, and intensity who has not let material poverty cramp his rich, if underrated, contribution to our intellectual life.Pomerants was among the first Russian disciples of cultural and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin.

Pomerants strongly criticized what he saw as Solzhenitsyn's dogmatic Christian nationalism and positioned himself closer to the liberal, internationalist wing of the intelligentsia.

[13][14] Pomerants himself stated that he preferred to be called a "thinker" (myslitel') rather than a "philosopher", since this term does not imply the academic discipline of philosophy, which he felt was merely neighboring his own work (po sosedstvu).

[15] One of the most quoted pieces in Russian by Pomerants reflected his views on the nature of social debate: The devil is born from an angel spitting in rage… People and systems crumble to dust, but the spirit of hate, bred by the champions of good, is immortal and thus evil on Earth knows no end.

Objects come and go, while manners form the building blocks of civilizations.Pomerants' lectures and a rejected thesis on Zen Buddhism were studied by filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and composer Eduard Artemyev during their work on Stalker.