Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Index