Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
1. Masks and Commitment: An Introduction
The Writer and His Masks
Reason in Transformations
The Christian Assumption
An Overview
2. Ordeals of Meaning: Art, Deed, and System
Preface: Commerce, Spirit, and Hegel's System
Attunement: Finding the Symbolic Key
Speech in Praise of Abraham: Art and Admiration
3. Ordeals of Love: Preamble from the Heart
The Knight and His Princess
Finite/Infinite, Temporal/Eternal
Resignation vs. Faith
Proprietary Claim and Selfless Concern
Receptivity and Return
The Absurd
Abraham: Dread and Joy
4. Ordeals of Reason and Ethics: Dilemmas and Subjectivity
Preserving Fear and Trembling
Sarte and Dilemma
Universal and Particular
Abraham's Silence
Subjectivity and Reason
5. Ordeals of Reason and Ethics: Suspensions and Faiths
Suspension as Dilemma
Irrationality, Faith, and the Fanatic
Refusing God
Faiths, Secular, and Religious
6. Ordeals and Reconciliations: Getting Isaac Back
Resignation, Humility, and Value
Suspending the Universal: Individual Worth
Gift and Giver
Essential Humanity: The Universal Returned
7. Ordeals and Reconciliations: Faith and Moral Virtue
Clarifications
Kant, Kierkegaard, and Hidden Inwardness
The Invisible Knight
The Tale Retold
8. Ordeals of Silence: Ethics and Transformations
Disclosure
Marks of the Ethical
The Limits of Ethics
Ethics Transformed
9. Ordeals of Silence: Faith and Concealments
Silences Once More
Kinds of Concealment
Writing and Redemption
10. From Socrates to Abraham: An Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index