Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:40:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HAB: re: Lifeworld (Bill, #87)



Bill> I don't follow when you write:

Gary>> "The notion urges itself on theoretical
understanding in direct proportion to a concern for the
individuality or identity of interaction, especially
regarding the historicity of interaction, which is always
already a *life* historicality."

G: The notion of lifeworld was introduced to address a
so-to-speak *existential* issue that other notions
couldn't. For Dilthey, the notion of life experience was
indicated. For Husserl, the holism of "lived" understanding
(which couldn't be captured in the language of
transcendental reduction) was an new approach to
phenomenology altogether, which the notion of lifeworld
(lebenswelt) generaly dennoted. For Merleau-Ponty, the
*embodiment* of perception was emphasized. Experientiality,
lived holism, and embodiment become more important the more
that one focuses on individuality and identity, which is
the site of holistically lived embodiment. For all of
them--Dilthey, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty--the historicity
of this was paramount. 

For JH as well, the term 'lifeworld' emblemizes or names an
involved analysis, whose elements are quite accessible.
"Lifeworld" is a discursive term, which only makes sense,
as *JH* understands it, relative to entire discourse which
JH associates with this terms.

Gary


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