IntroductionAnxiety: A philosophical history
The new philosophy: Kant's transcendental revolution
Anxiety, freedom, and evil: Schelling and groundless life
The dialectics of affect: Anxiety and despair in Kierkegaard
Schopenhauer, "life," and the affects of the noumenal
Nietzsche and the intensification of the dialectic of anxiety: Mourning and transvaluation
Freud and the three anxieties
Heidegger I: Angst in Heidegger's fundamental ontology and the debts to Husserl and Kierkegaard
Heidegger II: Angst, the temporalization of Dasein, and the temporality of "life"
Emmanuel Levinas and the anxiety of intersubjective origins
Epilogue: Social implications of the "age of anxiety."