Contents

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Part I Introduction and Historical Excursus

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Chapter One Introduction

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Chapter Two Soviet Cultural Psychology (1924–)

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Chapter Three Goethe’s Romantic Science

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Chapter Four The Young Hegel and What Drove Him

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Chapter Five The Phenomenology and ‘Formations of Consciousness'

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The Phenomenology

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Chapter Six The Subject Matter of the Logic

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Chapter Seven Being, Essence & the Notion

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Chapter Eight Subjectivity and Culture

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Chapter Nine Hegel’s Psychology and Spirit

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Hegel’s Psychology

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Chapter Ten Marx’s Critique of Hegel

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Chapter Eleven Marx and the Foundations of Activity Theory

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Activity

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Social Formations

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Chapter Twelve Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

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Abstraction

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The Commodity Relation

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Chapter Thirteen Conclusions from this Historical Excursus

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Part II Lev Vygotsky

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Chapter Fourteen Vygotsky’s Critique of Behaviorism

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Vygotsky’s Hegelianism

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Behaviorism

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Vygotsky’s Sources and Influences

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Chapter Fifteen Vygotsky and Luria on Romantic Science

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Luria

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Chapter Sixteen Vygotsky on Units and Microcosms

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Unit of Analysis

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Chapter Seventeen Vygotsky on Gestalt and Bildung

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The Higher Psychological Functions

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The Social Situation of Development

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Vygotsky on Concepts

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Chapter Eighteen The Significance of Vygotsky’s Legacy

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Part III Activity Theory

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Chapter Nineteen Activity

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Interdisciplinary Concept

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The General Conception of “Activity”

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Chapter Twenty Activity as the Substance of a Science

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Gadamer on the Hermeneutic Circle

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Chapter Twenty-One Criticisms of Vygotsky’s Concept of Activity

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Vygotsky’s Unit of Analysis for Consciousness

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Leontyev’s Criticism of Vygotsky’s Unit of Analysis

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Meshcheryakov’s Work

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Vygotsky’s Cultural Psychology

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Bakhtin

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Chapter Twenty-Two Leontyev’s Anatomy of Activity

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Levels of Activity

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The Standpoint of Activity Theory

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Leontyev’s Methodology

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Some Outstanding Problems

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Chapter Twenty-Three Leontyev’s Activity Theory and Marx’s Political Economy

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The Object of Labor under Capital

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Chapter Twenty-Four Groups as a Model of Sociality

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Chapter Twenty-Five Yrjö Engeström’s Model

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Chapter Twenty-Six Michael Cole and Cross-Cultural Psychology

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What is Context?

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History and Culture

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Chapter Twenty-Seven The Results of this Immanent Critique

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Part IV An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Chapter Twenty-Eight Collaborative Projects

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Chapter Twenty-Nine Ethics and Collaboration

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Social Science and Ethics

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Collaboration with Strangers

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The Ethics of Collaboration

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Chapter Thirty Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and Activity Theory

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Collaboration and Exchange

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Projects and Firms

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Chapter Thirty-One Towards a Taxonomy of Activity

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Genre, Frame and Field

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Chapter Thirty-Two Collaborative Projects and Identity

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Chapter Thirty-Three Collaborative Projects and Agency

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Chapter Thirty-Four Emancipatory Science

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Chapter Thirty-Five Conclusion

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Cultural Psychology and Critical Theory

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Science and Survival

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Acknowledgements

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References

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Index

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