TITLE:
Beyond the Clash between World-Views: Revisiting Husserl’s Concept of the Life-World
AUTHORS:
Rosemary R. P. Lerner
KEYWORDS:
Nature; Culture; Multinaturalism; Multiculturalism; Western Versus Indigenous Worldviews; Euro-Centrism; Life-World; Husserl; Phenomenology
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.3 No.3,
August
12,
2013
ABSTRACT: Husserl shares
the European view whereby (physical and psychic) nature is the common denominator upon which the diversity of cultures are built, a vision that
motivates the quest for the conditions of possibility of encounters beyond cultural differences, truth beyond multiple perspectives, and moral reconciliation beyond antagonisms. The American-Indian
worldview seems to challenge that view, for it rather proposes a multinaturalism built upon a type of
human and spiritual community common to every cosmic being. Husserl’s notion of
the “life-world” is revisited, whereby what appears at first sight as “in-compossible”
world-views shows indeed traits of an amazing proximity.