This book offers a bold and original rethinking of the metaphysics of relations. It defends core insights of established theories while showing where they fail to account for asymmetry, directionality, and complex polyadic structure, and it develops a new framework for explaining these phenomena without the usual ontological costs. The result is a substantial contribution to contemporary metaphysics, advancing a more granular and flexible account of relationality.

Claudius Berger has an academic background in philosophy, including teaching at the University of Tübingen, with a particular focus on metaphysics.