Antiques: The History of an Idea
ISBN: 9780801463822
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Antiques -- History; Antiques business -- History; Collectors and collecting -- History; Aesthetics -- Philosophy;

The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the...


Leon Rosenstein is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University and past president of the Classical Alliance of the Western States. He has been an antiques dealer since 1985.

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