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. 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