Lebenswelt

== English == === Etymology === From German Lebenswelt: Leben (“life”) + Welt (“world”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lāʹbənzvĕlt (approximate), IPA(key): /ˈleːbənzvɛlt/, === Noun === Lebenswelt (usually uncountable, plural Lebenswelten) (chiefly in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl) The sum total of all immediate phenomena which constitute the world of an individual or of a corporate life; life-world. 1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 7: The World, section 7: The Eye of the Beholder, page 260 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN The mind, for the idealist, creates the world we live in, the ‘Lebenswelt’ of our thoughts, imaginings, and perceptions. ==== References ==== == German == === Etymology === From Leben (“life”) +‎ Welt (“world”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈleːbm̩sˌvɛlt], [ˈleːbənsˌvɛlt] === Noun === Lebenswelt f (genitive Lebenswelt, plural Lebenswelten) (living) environment ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Lebenswelt” in Duden online