Book I. Preliminary ; Editorial difficulties ; Reminiscences ; Characteristics ; The world in clothes ; Aprons ; Miscellaneous-historical ; The world out of clothes ; Adamitism ; Pure reason ; Prospective
Book II. Genesis ; Idyllic ; Pedagogy ; Getting under way ; Romance ; Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh ; The everlasting no ; Centre of indifference ; The everlasting yea ; Pause
Book III. Incident in modern history ; Church-clothes ; Symbols ; Helotage ; The phœnix ; Old clothes ; Organic filaments ; Natural supernaturalism ; Circumspective ; The dandiacal body ; Tailors ; Farewell ; Appendix, testimonies of authors ; Summary
The hero as divinity ; Odin ; Paganism: Scandinavian mythology
The hero as prophet ; Mahomet: Islam
The hero as poet ; Dante, Shakespeare
The hero as priest ; Luther, Reformation, Knox, Puritanism
The hero as man of letters ; Johnson, Rousseau, Burns
The hero as king ; Cromwell, Napoleon: modern revolutionism.