Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Historical Turns 10
6. 2. Things As They Could Have Happened 29
7. 3. Relativist Perspectivism 57
8. 4. Metaphysics of Death 84
9. 5. The Nonsimultaneity of the Simultaneous 104
10. 6. Natural History 128
11. Epilogue The Weimar Analogy 147
12. Notes 167
13. Bibliography 215
14. Index 247