Globalization, Germany and "the West": Situating Husserl, Heidegger and the Idea of Phenomenology KU Leuven
Almost a century ago, Edmund Husserl’s staunch investigations into the depth of consciousness led him to postulate the concept of the lifeworld [Lebenswelt]. With this concept, Husserl couched a peculiar form that consisted in a complex system of relations. This form, according to Husserl, is immediately given (i.e. pregiven); it precedes cognitive and intellectual determinations, such as subject-object, nature-culture (i.e. the ...