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- noun philosophy The world "as lived" prior to
reflective representation or analysis.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We lived in slight indents Effective local blogging (3): creating the interface between Habermasian 'lifeworld' and anti-hegemonic narrative Andrew Neil, Melanie Phillips and ClimateGate: it cuts both ways
British Blogs 2010
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Fundamentally, the remit of any new localized 'cell-based' but centrally co-ordinated publication, whether electronic or hard copy, will be the creation of an effective interface between the existing 'lifeworld' and the development of an appropriate register of anti-hegemonic discourse.
British Blogs 2010
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Clearly, in today's shared 'lifeworld' the proletatiat has been subjugated through the realisation of a mass media enculturation project (cf the Lacanian concept of 'jouissance', is you will) based on glamourised notions of romance.
British Blogs 2010
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'lifeworld' & anti-hegemonic narrative Shallow hole in the ground?
British Blogs 2010
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'lifeworld' and anti-hegemonic narrative I am too serious a socialist thinker to waste time reading the right wing blogosphere.
British Blogs 2010
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My children live out their actual lives in the sunlit lifeworld that exists on this side of the screen, and it is a lifeworld that you cannot see.
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Reality Shows | Her Bad Mother 2009
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The word “lifeworld” is a reason to not read this, I think.
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And that running some network of social programs or schemes on the basis of these (“technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative”) theories runs the risk of destroying “the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.”
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I provide here – among other things – a curated, edited, honed collection of stories about that lifeworld, and the movements of my children within it, as I observe these, but that is all.
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Reality Shows | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Casting things aside, disposing of things, living a life that viewed the material world as ephemeral, disposable, transitory, rejectable was to deny relationship with things, to insist upon a lifeworld based on mastery over things, a lifeworld based on putting-things-to-service and then casting-them-aside.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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