Introduction
1. The Constitution of Cultural Modernity
2. From the Modern to the Contemporary
3. The Past Present: History as Trauma
4. The Present Past: History as Heritage
5. The Future Present: Science Fiction and the Time of the Novel
6. The Present Future: From World Literatures to Global Literature
7. The Present for the Present: The Museum of Contemporary Art
8. The Absolute Present: Modern, Postmodern, Contemporary
Biography
David Roberts is Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno and The Total Work of Art in European Modernism, the co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism, the editor of Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann, and the co-editor of Comic Relations: Studies in the Comic, Satire and Parody.
