Husserl, Epochē and Lebenswelt

Abstract

This chapter presents an outline of the thought of Edmund Husserl, particularly Husserl’s conceptions of the Lebenswelt (or ‘lifeworld’ and Epoche, as a preluded to the following four chapters on Siegfried Kracauer. The chapter also discusses other aspects of Husserl’s theory of phenomenology, including the distinction between the perceptual lifeworld and the cultural lifeworld, and the concepts of the ‘natural attitude’, and ‘Eidos’