How to feel about the fall of Carthage: heritage destruction in retrospect
When philosophers and other theorists reflect on the fate of cultural heritage in wartime, they tend to focus on the immediate temporal context: the rights and wrongs of targeting – or defending – heritage sites; the injustices of cultural expropriation; the harms involved in the violent erasure of 'intangible' heritage; and so on. But the most distinctive thing about heritage as a system of values is the greatly extended time-frame within which it operates. Our commitment to