The Order of Time

CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author's Note

Perhaps Time Is the Greatest Mystery

Part I THE CRUMBLING OF TIME

1. Loss of Unity

2. Loss of Direction

3. The End of the Present

4. Loss of Independence

5. Quanta of Time

Part II THE WORLD WITHOUT TIME

6. The World Is Made of Events, Not Things

7. The Inadequacy of Grammar

8. Dynamics as Relation

Part III THE SOURCES OF TIME

9. Time Is Ignorance

10. Perspective

11. What Emerges from a Particularity

12. The Scent of the Madeleine

13. The Source of Time

The Sister of Sleep

Image Credits

Notes

Index

About the Author