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n. (context philosophy English) The world "as lived" prior to reflective representation or analysis.
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Lifeworld may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together. For Husserl, the lifeworld is the fundament for all epistemological enquiries. The concept has its origin in biology and cultural Protestantism.
The lifeworld concept is used in philosophy and in some social sciences, particularly sociology and anthropology. The concept emphasizes a state of affairs in which the world is experienced, the world is lived (German erlebt). The lifeworld is a pre-epistemological stepping stone for phenomenological analysis in the Husserlian tradition.
Usage examples of "lifeworld".
I am saying that specific experiences, themselves linguistically structured in many ways, are not captured in signifiers without a corresponding lifeworld signified.
Words are the central experiences in the noosphere, but those verbal experiences cannot be represented without a common lifeworld.
Shared lifeworlds mean a shared set not just of structural signifiers but also of developmental signifieds.
A capacity for imaginative projection into the lifeworld, thought, and language of another person, whether living or dead, through music, literature, the visual arts, or conversationthis is the ethical burden of agape in the arts.