Contents -- Part I Introduction and Historical Excursus -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Soviet Cultural Psychology (1924-) -- Chapter Three Goethe's Romantic Science -- Chapter Four The Young Hegel and What Drove Him -- Chapter Five The Phenomenology and 'Formations of Consciousness' -- The Phenomenology -- Chapter Six The Subject Matter of the Logic -- Chapter Seven Being, Essence & the Notion -- Chapter Eight Subjectivity and Culture -- Chapter Nine Hegel's Psychology and Spirit -- Hegel's Psychology -- Chapter Ten Marx's Critique of Hegel -- Chapter Eleven Marx and the Foundations of Activity Theory -- Activity -- Social Formations -- Chapter Twelve Marx's Critique of Political Economy -- Abstraction -- The Commodity Relation -- Chapter Thirteen Conclusions from this Historical Excursus -- Part II Lev Vygotsky -- Chapter Fourteen Vygotsky's Critique of Behaviorism -- Vygotsky's Hegelianism -- Behaviorism -- Vygotsky's Sources and Influences -- Chapter Fifteen Vygotsky and Luria on Romantic Science -- Luria -- Chapter Sixteen Vygotsky on Units and Microcosms -- Unit of Analysis -- Chapter Seventeen Vygotsky on Gestalt and Bildung -- The Higher Psychological Functions -- The Social Situation of Development -- Vygotsky on Concepts -- Chapter Eighteen The Significance of Vygotsky's Legacy -- Part III Activity Theory -- Chapter Nineteen Activity -- Interdisciplinary Concept -- The General Conception of "Activity" -- Chapter Twenty Activity as the Substance of a Science -- Gadamer on the Hermeneutic Circle -- Chapter Twenty-One Criticisms of Vygotsky's Concept of Activity -- Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis for Consciousness -- Leontyev's Criticism of Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis -- Meshcheryakov's Work -- Vygotsky's Cultural Psychology -- Bakhtin -- Chapter Twenty-Two Leontyev's Anatomy of Activity -- Levels of Activity.

The Standpoint of Activity Theory -- Leontyev's Methodology -- Some Outstanding Problems -- Chapter Twenty-Three Leontyev's Activity Theory and Marx's Political Economy -- The Object of Labor under Capital -- Chapter Twenty-Four Groups as a Model of Sociality -- Chapter Twenty-Five Yrjö Engeström's Model -- Chapter Twenty-Six Michael Cole and Cross-Cultural Psychology -- What is Context? -- History and Culture -- Chapter Twenty-Seven The Results of this Immanent Critique -- Part IV An Interdisciplinary Approach -- Chapter Twenty-Eight Collaborative Projects -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Ethics and Collaboration -- Social Science and Ethics -- Collaboration with Strangers -- The Ethics of Collaboration -- Chapter Thirty Marx's Critique of Political Economy and Activity Theory -- Collaboration and Exchange -- Projects and Firms -- Chapter Thirty-One Towards a Taxonomy of Activity -- Genre, Frame and Field -- Chapter Thirty-Two Collaborative Projects and Identity -- Chapter Thirty-Three Collaborative Projects and Agency -- Chapter Thirty-Four Emancipatory Science -- Chapter Thirty-Five Conclusion -- Cultural Psychology and Critical Theory -- Science and Survival -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.