1 What do I expect philosophy to offer me ...9 // 2 What relativism is not ...13 // 3 What preceded relativism ...15 // 4 Is the relativist philosophy paradoxical? ...21 // 5 What about philosophy without the possibility of relations? ...29 // 6 Philosophical problems of the beginning ...35 // 7 Reality and validity ...43 // 8 Something about categories and their relations ...51 // 9 How should the concept of relation be understood ...63 // 10 Types of relations ...71 // 11 What is relativity ...83 // 12 Demonstrations and examples of relativity ...97 // 13 Dogmatic and critical relativism ...105 // 14 Relativistic epistemology ...109 // 15 What can be said about relativistic ontology? ...139 // 16 How can relativism make itself useful? ... 163 // Subject index ...173 // References ...177