Preface Part 1 Beginnings 1 The Riddle of the Self Revisited 2 Social Being and the Human Essence: A Dialogue with F.T. Mikhailov, V.S. Bibler, V.A. Lektorsky, and V.V. Davydov 3 Social Memory in Soviet Thought 4 The Meshcheryakov Experiment: Soviet Work on the Education of Blind–Deaf Children Part 2 Ilyenkov 5 Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy 6 Meaning, Normativity, and the Life of the Mind 7 Ilyenkov, Education, and Philosophy 8 Ilyenkov on Aesthetics: Realism, Imagination, and the End of Art 9 Ilyenkov’s Hegel Part 3 Vygotsky 10 Vygotsky’s Demons 11 On the Concept of Mediation 12 Vygotsky’s Concept of Perezhivanie: Its Philosophical and Educational Significance Part 4 Contemporary Applications 13 Memory, Identity, and the Future of Cultural Psychology 14 Minds, Brains, and Education 15 Reflections on Activity Theory 16 Activity and the Search for True Materialism 17 Activity, Action, and Self-Consciousness 18 Freedom and Second Nature in The Formation of Reason Permissions Bibliography Index

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need for a serious and long-term Marxist book publishing program by releasing original monographs, newly translated texts, and reprints of "classics."