Introduction
1. Suffering in the Context of Religion
2. A Science of Suffering Bodies
3. For the Lack of Moral Knowledge
4. The State of Nature as an Ever-Present Origin
5. Coercion in the Social Contract
6. The Death of God--Theodicy and the Enlightenment
7. Suffering: From Nature to History
8. Social Justice and the General Will: In and Out of Time
9. Nietzsche: Suffering and Tragedy
10. On the Genealogy of Morals
11. The Will to Power and the Will to Nothingness
12. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index