Creative acts (acts that give rise to something new) are opposed to reproductive acts (acts that reproduce or repeat, more or less accurately, something that already existed, behavior patterns that had already been mastered, etc.). This ability to imagine and create orients human beings towards the future, something different from what is, towards “creating the future and thus altering his own present” (Vygotsky, 2004, p. 9).

This book puts together and edits essays and materials from different sources in order to bring to western academics the views of the mind that were present in Vygostky’s works that because of historical and political reasons (including the cold war) were relatively unknown and untranslated in the west until the 1960s.