Translator's IntroductionReferences to Works of Kant and HeideggerPreface to the Fourth EditionPrefaces to the First, Second, and Third EditionsIntroductionThe Theme and Structure of the InvestigationThe unfolding of the idea of a Fundamental Ontology through the interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason as a laying of the ground for MetaphysicsPart OneThe Starting Point for the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsPart TwoCarrying out the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsA. The Characterization of the Dimension of Going-Back (needed) for Carrying Out the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsI. The Essential Characteristics of the Field of OriginII. The Manner of Unveiling the OriginB. The Stages of Carrying out the Projection of the Inner Possibility of OntologyThe First Stage in the Ground-Laying: The Essential Elements of Pure Knowledge A) Pure Intuition in Finite Knowing B) Pure Thinking in Finite KnowingThe Second Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Essential Unity of Pure KnowledgeThe Third Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Inner Possibility of the Essential Unity of Ontological SynthesisThe Fourth Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Ground for the Inner Possibility of Ontological KnowledgeThe Fifth Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Full Essential Determination of Ontological KnowledgePart ThreeThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in Its OriginalityA. The Explicit Characterization of the Ground Laid in the Ground-LayingB. The Transcendental Power of Imagination as Root of Both StemsC. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and the Problem of Human Pure ReasonPart FourThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in a RetrievalThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in AnthropologyB. The Problem of Finitude in Human Beings and the Metaphysics of DaseinC. The Metaphysics of Dasein as Fundamental OntologyAppendicesI. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Task of a Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsII. Davos Disputation between Ernst Cassirer and Martin HeideggerTranslator's Notes

Heidegger's interpretation of Kant remains a challenging way to address the issues that both Kant and Heidegger saw as crucial. . . . In reading [Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics] we can struggle with some basic issues of human existence in the company of two great minds.