| Introduction and Historical Excursus | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Soviet Cultural Psychology (1924-) | p. 13 |
| Goethe's Romantic Science | p. 23 |
| The Young Hegel and What Drove Him | p. 33 |
| The Phenomenology and 'Formations of Consciousness' | p. 41 |
| The Phenomenology | p. 45 |
| The Subject Matter of the Logic | p. 51 |
| Being, Essence & the Notion | p. 59 |
| Subjectivity and Culture | p. 69 |
| Hegel's Psychology and Spirit | p. 75 |
| Hegel's Psychology | p. 79 |
| Marx's Critique of Hegel | p. 85 |
| Marx and the Foundations of Activity Theory | p. 93 |
| Activity | p. 94 |
| Social Formations | p. 100 |
| Marx's Critique of Political Economy | p. 103 |
| Abstraction | p. 105 |
| The Commodity Relation | p. 108 |
| Conclusions from this Historical Excursus | p. 113 |
| Lev Vygotsky | |
| Vygotsky's Critique of Behaviorism | p. 119 |
| Vygotsky's Hegelianism | p. 122 |
| Behaviorism | p. 126 |
| Vygotsky's Sources and Influences | p. 130 |
| Vygotsky and Luria on Romantic Science | p. 133 |
| Luria | p. 138 |
| Vygotsky on Units and Microcosms | p. 141 |
| Unit of Analysis | p. 145 |
| Vygotsky on Gestalt and Bildung | p. 149 |
| The Higher Psychological Functions | p. 152 |
| The Social Situation of Development | p. 154 |
| Vygotsky on Concepts | p. 158 |
| The Significance of Vygotsky's Legacy | p. 163 |
| Activity Theory | |
| Activity | p. 169 |
| Interdisciplinary Concept | p. 169 |
| The General Conception of "Activity" | p. 174 |
| Activity as the Substance of a Science | p. 179 |
| Gadamer on the Hermeneutic Circle | p. 185 |
| Criticisms of Vygotsky's Concept of Activity | p. 189 |
| Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis for Consciousness | p. 192 |
| Leontyev's Criticism of Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis | p. 197 |
| Meshcheryakov's Work | p. 199 |
| Vygotsky's Cultural Psychology | p. 201 |
| Bakhtin | p. 202 |
| Leontyev's Anatomy of Activity | p. 205 |
| Levels of Activity | p. 205 |
| The Standpoint of Activity Theory | p. 208 |
| Leontyev's Methodology | p. 211 |
| Some Outstanding Problems | p. 213 |
| Leontyev's Activity Theory and Marx's Political Economy | p. 217 |
| The Object of Labor under Capital | p. 218 |
| Groups as a Model of Sociality | p. 223 |
| Yrjö Engeström's Model | p. 229 |
| Michael Cole and Cross-Cultural Psychology | p. 235 |
| What is Context? | p. 240 |
| History and Culture | p. 244 |
| The Results of this Immanent Critique | p. 249 |
| An Interdisciplinary Approach | |
| Collaborative Projects | p. 255 |
| Ethics and Collaboration | p. 267 |
| Social Science and Ethics | p. 267 |
| Collaboration with Strangers | p. 268 |
| The Ethics of Collaboration | p. 271 |
| p. Marx's Criti |
| Collaboration and Exchange | p. 276 |
| Projects and Firms | p. 277 |
| Towards a Taxonomy of Activity | p. 281 |
| Genre, Frame and Field | p. 286 |
| Collaborative Projects and Identity | p. 289 |
| Collaborative Projects and Agency | p. 295 |
| Emancipatory Science | p. 301 |
| Conclusion | p. 317 |
| Cultural Psychology and Critical Theory | p. 318 |
| Science and Survival | p. 324 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 327 |
| References | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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