lifeworldLebenswelt
Lifeworld, or Lebenswelt in German, is a central term in phenomenology describing the pre-theoretical, taken-for-granted world of everyday lived experience that serves as the background for all knowledge, perception, and action. For Edmund Husserl, the lifeworld is the immediate world of sense experience and practical coping from which scientific theories emerge and to which they must ultimately be answerable. It includes perception, language, practical skills, social norms, and cultural meanings that structure how things appear to us.
In Husserl's later work the lifeworld becomes the ground of the sciences and a source of the
In sociology and social philosophy, Schutz and Luckmann extended the idea to describe the social world as
Heidegger's related notion of being-in-the-world (Dasein) shifts focus to existence structured by practical involvement with the
Critics argue that the notion can be imprecise or idealized; nonetheless, the lifeworld remains a foundational