Concepts -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- The Diversity of Concepts -- Why Concepts Matter -- PART I: CONTEMPORARY THEORY -- CHAPTER ONE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONCEPTS -- The Classical Theory of Concepts -- Some Reflections on Aristotle -- Prototypes , Exemplars and Ideals -- Theory Theory and Semantic Networks -- What Has Been Learnt from Analytical Approaches -- The Problem with the Analytical View -- Analysis -- The Sociocultural Turn -- CHAPTER TWO: NARRATIVES AND METAPHORS -- The Narrative Turn -- Metaphors, Models and Analogy -- Analogy in Creating Concepts -- CHAPTER THREE: CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND LINGUISTICS -- Piaget -- Thomas Kuhn's Sociology of Science -- Misconceptions and Conceptual Change -- Linguistics -- Wittgenstein -- CHAPTER FOUR: ROBERT BRANDOM ON CONCEPTS -- Introduction -- Brandom's Theory of Concepts -- Brandom's Critique of the Psychology of Concepts -- Critique of Brandom's Theory of Concepts -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE: WHERE WE ARE NOW WITH CONCEPTS -- Thought-Forms and Mental Images -- Networks, Plots, Categories, Theories and Institutions -- Conclusion -- PART II: HEGEL -- CHAPTER SIX: THE STORY OF THE CONCEPT -- Descartes and the Mind/Matter Dichotomy -- Kant and the Subject/Object Relation -- Herder, Goethe and Culture -- Hegel's Appropriation of the Urphänomen -- Hegel and Mediation -- Formations of Consciousness -- The Concept -- CHAPTER SEVEN: HEGEL'S LOGIC -- The Subject Matter of the Logic -- A Presuppositionless Philosophy? -- Moving Concepts -- The Logic Concerns Real Situations -- Being Is the Concept In-Itself -- Essence Is Reflection -- The Abstract Concept -- The Genesis of the Concept -- Each Division Has a Distinct Form of Movement -- Hegel's Logic and Categorisation -- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE GENESIS OF THE CONCEPT -- Being -- Reflection -- CHAPTER NINE: THE REALISATION OF THE CONCEPT.

The Abstract Concept -- Being and the Concept -- Development of the Concept -- The Individual, Universal and Particular -- The Immediate Concept -- Objectification -- Hegel's Critique of the Individual/Society Dichotomy -- CHAPTER TEN: HEGEL'S PSYCHOLOGY -- The Subjective Spirit -- Subject and Object -- The Psyche -- Consciousness -- Intelligence or "Free Mind" -- Practical and Theoretical Spirit -- The Individual Self -- Conclusion -- PART III: FROM PHILOSOPHY TO THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE CRITICAL APPROPRIATION OF HEGEL -- Hegel and Activity -- Hegel's Idealism -- Concepts Are Processes Not Entities -- The Structure of the Concept -- Marx -- CHAPTER TWELVE: SOURCES OF CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY -- German Natural Science -- French Sociology -- American Pragmatism -- PART IV: VYGOTSKY -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CONCEPTS IN CHILDHOOD -- Concepts -- The 'Double Stimulation' Experiment -- Infancy -- Syncretic Concepts -- Complexes -- Potential Concepts and Preconcepts -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: VYGOTSKY ON 'TRUE CONCEPTS' -- Scientifijic Concepts -- The Concepts of Social Science -- The Method for Investigating Concepts -- True Concepts and Spontaneous Concepts -- The Concept and Its Defijinition -- Concepts and Word Meaning -- Concepts and Problem-Situations -- The Development of Concepts -- Conscious Awareness -- Defijinitions -- Concepts Are Part of a System -- Generalisation -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: CONCEPTS AND ACTIVITY -- Concepts and Activity Theory -- Concepts and Predicaments -- True, Scientifijic and Everyday Concepts in Social Life -- Concepts and Material Culture -- Dialogical and Cultural Theory -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- Current Research in the Light of Hegel and Vygotsky -- What Is a Concept? -- Objectifijication and Reifijication -- Abstract Generality -- Self-Realisation and Sustainability -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.