The Zaman system

This book focuses on what every historian should know about their primary subject: the time they rarely question, and about the conceptual tools that allow them to think about it, tools that are often mistakenly assumed to be natural. The history of approaches to time is inseparable from questioning time itself, for time is not one but many, as demonstrated in this book. Whether it is continuous at times or discrete at others, whether it is solid, descriptive, or quantitative, or periodic or linear, we experience it as explosive and contradictory. Its many records, faces, and layers do not accept reduction: the essence of time is that there is no existence except for times.