{"id":48460774,"date":"2011-04-04T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kauda.posterous.com\/kultur-search-of-meaning"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:45:25","slug":"kultur-search-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/?p=48460774","title":{"rendered":"search of meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The concept of culture I espouse, and whose utility the essays below attempt to demonstrate, is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">[Clifford Geertz in <\/span><em>&#8222;<\/em><em>Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture&#8220;, 1973]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of culture I espouse, and whose utility the essays below attempt to demonstrate, is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[116,105],"class_list":["post-48460774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-jahrhundert","category-zitate","tag-geertz","tag-weber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48460774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48460774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48460774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175518652,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48460774\/revisions\/175518652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48460774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48460774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48460774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}