David L. Gross recieved his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His main area of specialization is Modern European Intellectual History from the eighteenth century to the present. Gross's research has dealt with issues having to do with the decline of tradition in the modern era, remembering and forgetting in contemporary culture, and the emergence of anti-modern forms of thought in the West since l789. Publications include: The Past in Ruins: Tradition and the Critique of Modernity (1992), Lost Time: on Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture (2000), and "Objects from the Past," in Waste-Site Stories: the Recycling of Memory (2003). Gross is also the editor of a book series with The University of Massachusetts Press entitled "Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture," and Associate Editor of the journal Telos: a Critical Quarterly.