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Intro -- Preface: Conceptual Healing -- Factoring Philosophy Confounds Common Sense and Sidelines Philosophy -- Developing Good Fundamental Concepts -- Philosophical Phrases that Realign Discourse -- Historical Materialism and Factoring Philosophy -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 Introduction: How Factoring Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines -- Four Views of Concepts -- The Horizon of Human Existence -- Phenomenology, Factoring, and False Moves -- The Skeptical Drama and the Midas Touch -- Pure Concepts or Worldly Concepts? -- Purist Concepts and the Pure, Featureless Self -- More False Moves: Winnowing and Flip-Flops -- The False Philosopher's Critique of False Philosophy -- Thinking Tethered to the World -- Recovery of the World: Then and Now -- Capitalism and False Moves -- The Essay Form: Two Sources of Inspiration -- Notes -- References -- 2 Is Life Absurd? -- Albert Camus: Our Futile Desire for Knowledge -- Richard Taylor: Repugnance at Life -- Thomas Nagel: The Absurd Two-In-One of Human Existence -- A Phenomenology of Reflection -- Why Global Absurdity Does not Fit Our Lives -- The Importance of the Question of Life's Meaning -- The Absurd that Matters -- Notes -- References -- 3 Being Mortal -- Customary Views of Death -- Dismissive Philosophies of Death -- A Better Phenomenology of Death -- The Death of Others -- How a Life Comes to an End -- Mortality as Being Toward the End -- Anxiety Over Existing and Fear of Death -- Why We Should Fear Death -- Fear of Living -- Notes -- References -- 4 Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism -- The Promise of Stoicism -- Mirroring Nature Conceals Judgment -- The Deceptiveness of Stoic Advice -- Faulty Phenomenology and Its Fallout -- The Emptiness of Stoic Virtue -- Passions on the Procrustean Bed -- No Room for Action -- Reinventing Temporality.

1. Introduction: Philosophy and Social Theory beyond the "Bourgeois Horizon" -- 2. Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse about Capital -- 3. The Legend of Hegel's Labor Theory of Reason -- 4. Marx, Subjectivism, and Modern Moral Philosophy -- 5. Karl Marx and the Critique of Bourgeois Philosophy -- 6. Reclaiming the Concepts of Value and Capital -- 7. Social Form and the "Purely Social": On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value -- 8. The Commodity Spectrum -- 9. A Brilliant Failure: Hegel and Marx Assess the Enlightenment -- 10. From Hegel on Enlightenment Terror to Marx on Capital -- 11. The Poetics of Nihilism: Representing Capital's Indifference in Dickens' Hard Times -- 12. Rebel without a Cause: Stanley Kubrick and the Banality of the Good -- 13. Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen. .