life-world
Example Sentences
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The Nobel committee lauded him “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most unspeakable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
Today, the prize went to the French novelist Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2014
The Swedish prize worth roughly $1.1 million was awarded to Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From Time ● Oct. 9, 2014
This is just one more fascinating clue to the way in which the Enlightenment has shrunk and tidied up our European life-world.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
Jane Austen's life-world presented such a limited experience that it is marvellous where she could have found the models from which she studied such a variety of forms.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
