Translator's Note xiii
Preface to the English-Language Edition xv
Opening: The Isenheim Altarpiece or "The Taking on Board of Suffering" xvii
Introduction: Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1
PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE
1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7

§1 The Burden of Death, 7 ¿ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8
2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10

§3 Death "for Us" Humans, 10 ¿ §4 Genesis and Its

Symbolism, 11 ¿ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ¿ §6 The Image

of Finitude in Man, 13 ¿ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ¿

§8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ¿ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ¿

§10 The Face of Death, 18 ¿ §11 To Die "with," 19
3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22

§13 Inevitable Death, 22 ¿ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ¿

§15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ¿ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24
4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26

§17 The Life Sentence, 26 ¿ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ¿

§19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27
PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH

§20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ¿ §21 Alarm and

Anxiety, 31
5 The Fear of Dying and Christ's "Alarm" 33

§22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ¿ §23 The Cup,

Sadness, and Sleep, 34 ¿ §24 Resignation, Waiting, and

Heroism, 35 ¿ §25 The Silence at the End, 36 ¿

§26 The Scenarios of Death, 37 ¿ §27 The Triple

Failure of the Staging, 38 ¿ §28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39
6 God's Vigil 41

§29 Remaining Always Awake, 41 ¿ §30 The Passage of Death,

the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42 ¿

§31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43
7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45

§32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45 ¿

§33 The Strait Gate, 46 ¿ §34 Anxiety over "Simply Death," 47 ¿

§35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power

of God, 47 ¿ §36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52 ¿

§37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the

Father, 54 ¿ §38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55
8 Death and Its Possibilities 57

§39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossibility, and Death

as "Mineness," 57 ¿ §40 Being Vigilant at Gethsemane, 59 ¿

§41 From the Actuality of the Corpse to Possibilities for

the Living, 60 ¿ §42 The Death That Is Always His: Suffering in

God; The Gift of His Life and Refusal of Mastery, 63 ¿

§43 The Flesh Forgotten, 66
PART III: THE BODY-TO-BODY OF SUFFERING AND DEATH

§44 Disappropriation and Incarnation, 69 ¿ §45 Embedding in

the Flesh and Burial in the Earth, 70
9 From Self-Relinquishment to the Entry into the Flesh 73

§46 Suffering the World, 73 ¿ §47 Living in the

World, 74 ¿ §48 Otherness and Corruptibility, 74 ¿

§49 Self-Relinquishment, 75 ¿ §50 Passing to the Father,

76 ¿ §51 Oneself as an Other, 77 ¿ §52 Destitution and

Auto-Affection, 78 ¿ §53 Alterity and Fraternity, 79 ¿

§54 Entry into the Flesh, 80 ¿ §55 The Anxiety "in"

the Flesh, 81 ¿ §56 Toward Dumb Experience, 82
10 Suffering Occluded 84

§57 An Opportunity Thwarted, 84 ¿ §58 Called into

Question, 86 ¿ §59 Toward a Phenomenology of Suffering, 86
11 Suffering Incarnate 88

§60 Perceiving, or the Challenge of the Toucher-Touching,

88 ¿ §61 The Modes of the Incarnate Being, 91 ¿

§62 The Excess of the Suffering Body, 94
12 The Revealing Sword 97

§63 Sobbing and Tears, 97 ¿ §64 Fleshly Exodus, 99 ¿

§65 The Vulnerable Flesh, 100 ¿ §66 The Non-Substitutable

Substitution, 101 ¿ §67 The Act of Surrendering Oneself, 103 ¿

§68 Toward a Revelation, 104 ¿ §69 Useless Suffering, 104
Conclusion: The In-Fans [without-Speech] or the Silent Flesh 107
Epilogue: From One Triptych to Another 111
Notes 115
Index 157