Activity: The Theory, Methodology, and Problems

Note to the American Reader ................... ix
V.P. Lektorsky
An Invitation to Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
\~P. Lektorsky
SECTION ONE: Activity as a Problem
Chapter 1 The Concept of Activity as a Philosophical
Category: Problems Involved . . . . . . . . . . 1
V.S. Shvyrev
Chapter 2 The Category of Activity: Inexhaustible
Possibilities and Limits of Applicability . . 7
G.S. Batishchev
Chapter 3 Ability and Rationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
I.T. Kasavin
Chapter 4 Activity, Behavior and Creativity . . . . . . 23
AL. Nikiforov
Chapter 5 The Categoric Context of the Activity
Approach ....................... 33
V.N. Sagatovsky
Chapter 6 The Place of the Category of Activity
in the Theoretical System of Historical
Materialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Y.K. Pletnikov
Chapter 7 Activity and Social Relationships . . . . . . 49
V.Z. Kelle
Chapter 8 Activity - Labor - Culture .......... 57
N.S. Zlobin
Chapter 9 The Activity of the Subject and
Psychic Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
A.V. Brushlinsky
Chapter 10 On The Place of the Category of
Activity in Modern Theoretical
Psychology ...................... 75
V.V. Davydov
PART TWO Discussion and Criticism
Chapter 11 Activity as an Open System . . . . . . . . . . 83
V.S. Shvyrev
Chapter 12 The Activity Approach in the Captivity
of Substantialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
G.S. Batyshchev
Chapter 13 Defining Activity in the Context of a
Research Tusk .................... 93
I.T. Kasavin
Chapter 14 The Common and the Individual in
Activity ......................... 99
A.L. Nikiforov
Chapter 15 Activity: Monism at Any Price or
Polyphony? ..................... 103
V.I. Sagatovsky
Chapter 16 Discussion Continued ............. 109
V.Z. Kelle
Chapter 17 Thrminological Discordance andbr
Conceptual Differences ............. 115
N.S. Zlobin
Chapter 18 The Importance of Man's Interaction
with the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
A.V. Brushlinsky
Chapter 19 Problems of Activity as a Mode of
Human Existence and the
Principle of Monism ............... 127
V.V. Davydov
SECTION THREE Replies to Criticism
Chapter 20 A Serious Conceptual Problem and
not Scholastic Theorizing . . . . . . . . . . 133
V.S. Shvyrev
Chapter 21 Some Remarks on Critical Remarks ... 139
V.Z. Kelle
Chapter 22 Tu Argue is to Seek the 1hlth ........ 143
Y.K. Pletnikov
Chapter 23 Yes, We Need a Monistic Theory of
Human Existence ................ 149
V.V. Davydov
Chapter 24 Reply to Objections and
Misunderstandings ............... 157
A. V. Brushlinsky
Chapter 25 Rational Limits and Prospects of
Human Activity .................. 163
l.T. Kasavin
Chapter 26 Not by Deed Alone ................ 169
G.S. Batyshchev
Chapter 27 Activity and Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
A.L. Nikiforov
Chapter 28 Returning to the Problem of Method ..... 185
V.N. Sagatovsky
Chapter 29 By Way of Conclusion ............. 189
V.A. Lektorsky
Index .................................... 194