Pt. 1. Culture as a philosophical concept. The variety of symbolic world and the unity of mind / Oswald Schwemmer ; Cassirer's concept of a philosophy of human culture / Donald Philip Verene ; The modern concept of culture as indicator of a metaphysical problem / Ernst Wolfgang Orth ; Cassirer's symbolic theory of culture and the historicization of philosophy / Louis Dupré.
Pt. 2. Problems in the philosophical interpretation of culture. "Art" and "Science" in The philosophy of symbolic forms / Michael Holquist ; The subject of culture / Steve Lofts ; Styles of change: Ernst Cassirer's philosophical writing / Barbara Naumann.
Pt. 3. Comparative studies. Bakhtin and Cassirer: the philosophical origins of carnival messianism / Brian Poole ; From culture to politics: the "Aufhebung" of ethics in Ernst Cassirer's political philosophy in comparison with the "Political theology" of Ernst Kantorowicz / Enno Rudolph ; Speaking of symbols: affinities between Cassirer's and Jung's theories of language / Paul Bishop ; "Eine zarte Differenz": Cassirer on Goethe on the symbol / R.H. Stephenson ; Goethe as model for cultural values: Ernst Cassirer's Essay on Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar / Cyrus Hamlin.
Pt. 4. Cassirer's philosophical outlook. The missing core of Cassirer's philosophy: Homo Faber in thin air / Gideon Freudenthal ; The Davos disputation and twentieth-century philosophy / Michael Friedman ; Why did Cassirer and Heidegger not debate in Davos? / John Michael Krois.
Appendix: How the Cassirer papers came to Yale / Vincent Giroud.
