{"id":24156,"date":"2020-12-18T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:19:44","slug":"david-roberts-history-of-the-present-the-contemporary-and-its-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24156","title":{"rendered":"David Roberts, \u201cHistory of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The \u2018contemporary\u2019 has replaced \u2018modern\u2019 and \u2018post-modern\u2019 self-understandings. The times of the past and the future have been transformed into versions of \u2018now\u2019 while the present has acquired its own history. <em>History of the Present<\/em> describes the emergence of this \u2018contemporary\u2019 historical consciousness across a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena ranging from historiography to heritage and museum studies, and from the globalization of the novel to the rise of science fiction. The culture of the \u2018contemporary\u2019 appears particularly clearly in the merging of high and low culture along with art and fashion. This book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and social theory, museum and heritage studies, and literary history and criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. The Constitution of Cultural Modernity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. From the Modern to the Contemporary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. The Past Present: History as Trauma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. The Present Past: History as Heritage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. The Future Present: Science Fiction and the Time of the Novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. The Present Future: From World Literatures to Global Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. The Present for the Present: The Museum of Contemporary Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. The Absolute Present: Modern, Postmodern, Contemporary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Roberts<\/strong> is Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of <em>Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno<\/em> and <em>The Total Work of Art in European Modernism<\/em>, the co-author of <em>Dialectic of Romanticism<\/em>: <em>A Critique of Modernism<\/em>, the editor of <em>Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann<\/em>, and the co-editor of <em>Comic Relations: Studies in the Comic, Satire and Parody<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published November 30, 2020 by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">152 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/History-of-the-Present-The-Contemporary-and-its-Culture\/Roberts\/p\/book\/9780367530952\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/History-of-the-Present-The-Contemporary-and-its-Culture\/Roberts\/p\/book\/9780367530952<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Present.jpg?fit=350%2C535&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47341,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47341","url_meta":{"origin":24156,"position":0},"title":"Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026 &#8211; &#8216;Temporalities&#8217;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"10. srpnja 2025.","format":false,"excerpt":"IMC 2026 will take place from Monday 06 July to Thursday 09 July 2026 and this will be the fifth fully-hybrid event. 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