Lebenswelt is a German word for the living world; the world of everyday experience.
Lebenswelt is a matrix from which all actions and reflections emerge and a context in which all our inclusions and theorizing are finally situated. In such a context, life should not be constructed primarily in a biological sense.
Lebenswelt does not refer so much to the world of living beings as to that of man. The term was used by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) in his later manuscripts, unpublished during his lifetime, and was later adopted as a keyword by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) in his critical approach to Husserl’s phenomenology.
