The Concept of Anxiety

by Kierkegaard, Soren

• ISBN13: 9780691020112
• ISBN10: 0691020116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-02-01
• Publisher: Princeton University Pres

Summary

In this book, Kierkegaard describes the nature and forms of anxiety, placing the domain of anxiety within the mental-emotional states of human existence that precede the qualitative leap of faith to the spiritual state of Christianity.

Table of Contents

Historical Introduction	vii
The Concept of Anxiety	1	(6)
Preface	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(16)
Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of Its Origin	25	(27)
Historical Intimations Regarding the Concept of Hereditary Sin	25	(4)
The Concept of the First Sin	29	(6)
The Concept of the Innocence	35	(3)
The Concept of the Fall	38	(3)
The Concept of Anxiety	41	(5)
Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and As Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of Its Origin	46	(6)
Anxiety as Explaining Hereditary Sin Progressively	52	(29)
Objective Anxiety	56	(4)
Subjective Anxiety	60	(21)
The Consequence of the Relationship of Generation	62	(11)
The Consequence of the Historical Relationship	73	(8)
Anxiety as the Consequence of that Sin Which Is Absence of the Consciousness of Sin	81	(30)
The Anxiety of Spiritlessness	93	(3)
Anxiety Defined Dialectically as Fate	96	(7)
Anxiety Defined Dialectically as Guilt	103	(8)
Anxiety of Sin or Anxiety as the Consequence of Sin in the Single Individual	111	(44)
Anxiety About Evil	113	(5)
Anxiety About the Good (The Demonic)	118	(37)
Freedom Lost Somatically-Psychically	136	(1)
Freedom Lost Pneumatically	137	(18)
Anxiety as Saving through Faith	155	(8)
Supplement	163	(52)
Key to References	164	(2)
Original Title Page	166	(3)
Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Concept of Anxiety	169	(46)
Editorial Appendix	215	(44)
Acknowledgments	217	(2)
Collation of The Concept of Anxiety in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works	219	(2)
Notes	221	(36)
Bibliographical Note	257	(2)
Index	259