This paper offers an overview of Joseph Margolis’s philosophy of culture, highlighting how Margolis’s radical historicism is not inconsistent with our realistic intuitions regrading facts and objectivity. While Margolis identifies interpretation as the work of culture, the paper suggests that a much more basic sense of human labor needs to be thematized more fully than Margolis does in any defensible account of culture. Margolis of course appreciates work in this sense, but he does not consistently make it integral to his conception of culture. Even so, what he so forcefully defends is, as one commentator has put it, “beautiful. It’s also erudite, elegant, and insightful (and frightfully, dialectically intricate).”

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毕竟，文化的工作是什么？

本文概述了约瑟夫·马戈利斯 (Joseph Margolis) 的文化哲学，强调了马戈利斯 (Margolis) 的激进历史主义与我们重新评价事实和客观性的现实直觉并不矛盾。虽然 Margolis 将解释视为文化的工作，但该论文表明，与 Margolis 在任何可辩护的文化解释中相比，更基本的人类劳动意识需要更充分地主题化。马戈利斯当然在这个意义上欣赏工作，但他并没有始终将其融入他的文化概念中。即便如此，他如此有力地捍卫的是，正如一位评论家所说，“美丽。它也博学、优雅、富有洞察力（而且可怕地、辩证地错综复杂）。”