| This essay deals with contemporary theory of conservation.
Perhaps the boldest thesis in the text is the very idea that a contemporary
theory of conservation actually exists. No one doubts
that there are a number of schemes, ideas and opinions – of theories
or fragments of theories that differ to a greater or lesser
degree from previous ones: they can be found or detected in written
texts of many kinds (congress abstracts and preprints, periodicals,
web pages, charters, etc.), in conversations and in the practice
of conservation itself. However, these ideas could hardly be considered
as a single, organized body of thinking. This book is an
attempt to weave many of these ideas into a coherent theory, and to
reveal patterns that might remain hidden due to their variety.
Stating that a contemporary theory exists implies that one or more
non-contemporary theories exist as well. We might call them ‘classical
theories’, but below this polite term there lies a less neutral
assumption: it is obvious that non-contemporary theories are a
thing of the past. |
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