This paper examines the early aesthetic writings of Joseph Margolis from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s in order to argue for the relevance of these works in understanding Margolis’s later, more well-known views in the philosophy of art. Specifically, the paper addresses Margolis’s early essays on the definition and ontology of art and aesthetic perception. These essays not only show Margolis engaged in the most significant debates in mid-century analytic aesthetics but also provide important indications of the limitations of that approach to thinking about the arts that informs the development of Margolis’s later cultural realism.

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马戈利斯看艺术

本文考察了约瑟夫·马戈利斯（Joseph Margolis）从 1950 年代末到 1960 年代中期的早期美学著作，以论证这些作品与理解马戈利斯后来在艺术哲学中更为知名的观点的相关性。具体而言，本文讨论了 Margolis 早期关于艺术和审美感知的定义和本体论的文章。这些文章不仅表明马戈利斯参与了本世纪中叶分析美学中最重要的辩论，而且还提供了重要的迹象表明这种思考艺术的方法的局限性，这些方法为马戈利斯后来的文化现实主义的发展提供了信息。