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Lebenswelt vs Lebensraum - What's the difference?

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Lebenswelt is a related term of lebensraum.


As nouns the difference between lebenswelt and lebensraum

is that lebenswelt is “life-world, n''” defined under “[http://dictionaryoedcom/cgi/entry/50132960 life, ''n ]”, listed in the oxford english dictionary [draft revision; june 2009] the sum total of all immediate phenomena which constitute the world of an individual or of a corporate life; life-world while lebensraum is (chiefly|with reference to nations and peoples) hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.

lebenswelt

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • “life-world, n.''” defined under “ life, ''n. ]”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; June 2009 The sum total of all immediate phenomena which constitute the world of an individual or of a corporate life; life-world.
  • * 1999 , Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy'', chapter 7: ''The World'', section 7: ''The Eye of the Beholder , page 260 (Oxford University Press, paperback, ISBN 0199690871)
    • The mind, for the idealist, creates the world we live in, the ‘Lebenswelt ’ of our thoughts, imaginings, and perceptions.

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    lebensraum

    English

    (Lebensraum)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Territories considered appropriate for German annexation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
  • # (in early usage) an empire in the form of overseas colonies, in imitation of contemporary powers such as Britain and France.
  • # (in later usage, Nazism) a to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals.

    • Derived terms

    * lebensraum

    Related terms

    * Lebensform * Lebenslust * Lebensspur * Lebenswelt

    References

    * “ ?lebensraum]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

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