| Editor's Preface | page IX |
| Preface to the German Edition | XIII |
| Comments on Karl Jaspers's Psychology of Worldviews (1919/21) | 1 |
| Phenomenology and Theology (1927) | 39 |
| From the Last Marburg Lecture Course (1928) | 63 |
| What Is Metaphysics? (1929) | 82 |
| On the Essence of Ground (1929) | 97 |
| On the Essence of Truth (1930) | 136 |
| Plato's Doctrine of Truth (1931/32, 1940) | 155 |
| On the Essence and Concept of Φύσις in Aristotle's Physics B, I (1939) | 183 |
| Postscript to "What Is Metaphysics?" (1943) | 231 |
| Letter on "Humanism" (1946) | 239 |
| Introduction to "What Is Metaphysics?" (1949) | 277 |
| On the Question of Being (1955) | 291 |
| Hegel and the Greeks (1958) | 323 |
| Kant's Thesis about Being (1961) | 337 |
| Notes | 365 |
| References | 379 |
| Editor's Postscript to the German Edition | 379 |