• DR. NIRANKUSH CHAKRABORTY

I intend to make certain observations on Husserl’s notion of the Life-world. Husserl seems not to be absolutely clear on the idea of the Life-world in the sense that he never explicitly and clearly explained it. He seems to play with different senses of the Life-world. Does Husserl conceive of the Life-world as a full-fledged cultural-historical world or does he conceive of it as a bare perceptual-natural world? There is a good deal debate and Husserl scholars are divided on this. A second and related issue may be taken up. In so far as the Life-world is understood as the concrete world of human experience, Husserl maintains unquestioningly that it is relative to a specific inter-subjective community bur he also speaks of ‘content with other human beings.’ There is a plurality of Life-worlds. Once the plurality and relativity are admitted the question of truth poses a problem. How do we account for the truth of the knowledge of objects encountered in the world? Further how would Husserl accommodate relativism within his essentialistic framework? Indeed Husserl’s Life-world has generated the some kind of puzzlement and controversy regarding the relativity and plurality of it, as has been generated by Wittgenstein’s concept of the form of life. The controversy in this regard between Garver (only one format life) and Hacker (many forms of life), is strikingly parallel to the Iso Kern-David Carr controversy regarding the Life-world. At this stage we can provide only tentative answers to these critical questions.

Observation, Explicitly, concrete, Life-world, inter-subjective, Plurality, relativity, essentialistic, relativism

"Husserl’s Life-world and some critical Reflections", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.305-312, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906M42.pdf

"Husserl’s Life-world and some critical Reflections", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp305-312, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906M42.pdf