Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus Change -- Why the Mind? -- The Challenge of Change versus Tradition -- Interpreting Vygotsky through the Non-Neutral Lens of Activist Methodology -- Working at the Intersection of Theory and Practice -- A Personal Reflection: An Autobiographical Sketch -- Part I -- 1 Charting the Agenda: From Adaptation to Transformation -- Outline of the Transformative Activist Stance -- Methodology -- 2 Situating Theory: The Charges and Challenges of Theorizing Activism -- The Neo-Darwinian Ethos of Adaptation -- The End of Theory? -- The Charges of Research with Activist Agendas -- The Challenges of the Sought-After Future -- Theorizing Subjectivity and Mind: Progress and Challenges -- Developing Alternatives for Research with Transformative Agendas -- Foregrounding the Ethical -- Part II -- 3 Vygotsky's Project: Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Transformative Methodology -- 4 Vygotsky's Project: Relational Ontology -- The Varying Faces of Relational Approaches -- Relational Worldview: The Interface with the World -- The Complementary Roots of the Relational Worldview: Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky -- Vygotsky's Relational Ontology -- Drawing Parallels and Contrasts -- 5 Vygotsky's Project: From Relational Ontology to Transformative Worldview -- Part III -- 6 Transformative Activist Stance: Ontology and Epistemology -- Ontological Foundations of a Transformative Worldview -- The Notion of Reality in Activity Theory -- Historicity -- The Status of Change -- Reclaiming S/Objective Reality -- 7 Transformative Activist Stance: Agency -- The Dialectics of Individual-Collective Layers of Social Practices: The Centrality of Contribution