This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to embody their histories. Such genuine or

The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls for an international respons

"Art has not always had the same salience in philosophical discussions of ethics that many other elements of our lives have. There are well-defined areas of "ap

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, r