Interpretation has been a key theme in pragmatist aesthetics, but its centrality in neopragmatist thinking goes far beyond the field of art. Its influence extends into epistemology, ontology, and the philosophies of language, history, selfhood, and culture. Joseph Margolis devoted many articles and even an entire book to this topic, which he titled Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly. My critical examination of Margolis’s theory of interpretation shows how it is radical not only in terms of its robust relativism. It is also radical in the etymological sense of “radical” as “forming the root” of his philosophical thought in general. The logic of interpretation that Margolis developed for aesthetics is the original, generative source of his relativism, but its influence and relativist logic then extended ever more widely and deeply into his themes of anti-essentialism, historicism, and flux that pervade his metaphysics of culture and philosophical anthropology.

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实用主义与阐释：激进、相对主义，但并非不守规矩

解释一直是实用主义美学的一个关键主题，但它在新实用主义思想中的核心地位远远超出了艺术领域。它的影响延伸到认识论、本体论以及语言、历史、自我和文化的哲学。约瑟夫·马戈利斯 (Joseph Margolis) 为这个主题写了很多文章，甚至写了一整本书，他将其命名为《激进但不失规矩的解释》。我对马戈利斯解释理论的批判性考察表明，它不仅在其强大的相对主义方面是多么激进。在“激进”的词源意义上，它也是激进的，因为“形成了他的一般哲学思想的根源”。马戈利斯为美学发展的解释逻辑是他相对主义的原始、生成源泉，