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.

• 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

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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.

• 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

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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.

• 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

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