Humanitarian discourses of modernity: the need for the present and the future

The face of an era is measured by significant events, not a formal chronology. The meanings of time are fixed, including in chronotopes - typical structures of time / space on which various art genres are based. Studying a modern novel, contemporary music or architecture, you can compose some “line” of typical modes of the past, present, future, which are most often used in the selected period. The article provides links to contemporary romance, music and philosophy. The author believes that they are quite comparable with sociological discourses. Interpretations of time in artistic culture, as well as the conclusions of sociologists, demonstrate a painful gap between the present and the future with the bygone time. Most often, it resembles a fork in time, which does not allow us to project the future.