| Translator's Introduction to the Fifth Edition | |
| Translator's Introduction to the Fourth Edition | |
| References to Works of Kant and Heidegger | |
| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
| Prefaces to the First, Second, and Third Editions | |
| Introduction: The Theme and Structure of the Investigation | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | The Starting Point for the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics | 3 |
| 1 | The Traditional Concept of Metaphysics | 3 |
| 2 | The Point of Departure for the Laying of the Ground for Traditional Metaphysics | 6 |
| 3 | The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics as "Critique of Pure Reason" | 9 |
| Pt. 2 | Carrying Out the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics | 13 |
| 4 | The Essence of Knowledge in General | 14 |
| 5 | The Essence of the Finitude of Knowledge | 18 |
| 6 | The Ground for the Source of the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics | 24 |
| 7 | The Outline of the Stages in the Laying of the Ground for Ontology | 26 |
| 8 | The Method for Revealing the Origin | 28 |
| 9 | The Elucidation of Space and Time as Pure Intuitions | 31 |
| 10 | Time as the Universal Pure Intuition | 34 |
| 11 | The Pure Concept of Understanding (Notion) | 36 |
| 12 | Notions as Ontological Predicates (Categories) | 39 |
| 13 | The Question Concerning the Essential Unity of Pure Knowledge | 42 |
| 14 | The Ontological Synthesis | 43 |
| 15 | The Problem of the Categories and the Role of Transcendental Logic | 46 |
| 16 | The Elucidation of the Transcendence of Finite Reason as Basic Intention of the Transcendental Deduction | 50 |
| 17 | The Two Ways of the Transcendental Deduction | 53 |
| 18 | The External Form of the Transcendental Deduction | 60 |
| 19 | Transcendence and Making-Sensible | 63 |
| 20 | Image and Schema | 65 |
| 21 | Schema and Schema-Image | 68 |
| 22 | The Transcendental Schematism | 72 |
| 23 | Schematism and Subsumption | 77 |
| 24 | The Highest Synthetic Principle as the Full Determination of the Essence of Transcendence | 81 |
| 25 | Transcendence as the Laying of the Ground for Metaphysica Generalis | 85 |
| Pt. 3 | The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in Its Originality | 89 |
| 26 | The Formative Center of Ontological Knowledge as Transcendental Power of Imagination | 89 |
| 27 | The Transcendental Power of Imagination as the Third Basic Faculty | 94 |
| 28 | The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Pure Intuition | 99 |
| 29 | The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Theoretical Reason | 102 |
| 30 | The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Practical Reason | 109 |
| 31 | The Originality of the Previously Laid Ground and Kant's Shrinking-Back from the Transcendental Power of Imagination | 112 |
| 32 | The Transcendental Power of Imagination and Its Relation to Time | 121 |
| 33 | The Inner Temporal Character of the Transcendental Power of Imagination | 123 |
| 34 | Time as Pure Self-Affection and the Temporal Character of the Self | 132 |
| 35 | The Originality of the Previously Laid Ground and the Problem of Metaphysics | 137 |
| Pt. 4 | The Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in a Retrieval | 143 |
| 36 | The Previously Laid Ground and the Outcome of the Kantian Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics | 144 |
| 37 | The Idea of a Philosophical Anthropology | 146 |
| 38 | The Question Concerning the Human Essence and the Authentic Result of the Kantian Ground-Laying | 150 |
| 39 | The Problem of a Possible Determination of Finitude in Human Beings | 153 |
| 40 | The Original Working-Out of the Question of Being as the Way to the Problem of Finitude in Human Beings | 155 |
| 41 | The Understanding of Being and Dasein in Human Beings | 158 |
| 42 | The Idea of a Fundamental Ontology | 162 |
| 43 | The Inception and the Course of Fundamental Ontology | 164 |
| 44 | The Goal of Fundamental Ontology | 167 |
| 45 | The Idea of Fundamental Ontology and the Critique of Pure Reason | 170 |
| App. I | Notes on the Kantbook | 175 |
| App. II | Ernst Cassirer: Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Part Two: Mythical Thought, Berlin, 1925 | 180 |
| App. III | Davos Lectures: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Task of a Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics | 191 |
| App. IV | Davos Disputation between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger | 193 |
| App. V | On Odebrecht's and Cassirer's Critiques of the Kantbook | 208 |
| App. VI | On the History of the Philosophical Chair Since 1866 | 213 |
| Editor's Afterword | 219 |
| Translator's Notes | 223 |
Format: Paperback, 5th ed., 256 pages
