What role did the life-world play in Edmund Husserl’s later philosophy?

In his later philosophy, particularly in his final work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936), Edmund Husserl introduced the concept of the life-world (Lebenswelt) as a foundational response to the perceived crisis of European culture and science.12

The life-world represents the world as it is immediately and directly experienced in everyday subjectivity, encompassing individual, social, and practical experiences. Husserl argued that modern science, through its objectivistic and mathematical approach, had forgotten its own origins in this subjective life-world. By focusing exclusively on exact scientific truth, science obscured the "accomplishing subject" and the pre-scientific experiences that serve as the necessary foundation for all scientific knowledge.31

Husserl’s later work aimed to:
* Overcome the split between physicalist objectivism and transcendental subjectivism by demonstrating that scientific truth presupposes the truth of the life-world.1
* Develop an ontology of the life-world, which involves a systematic analysis of the constitutive acts that make the life-world possible.31
* Address historicity, reflecting on how philosophy emerged as a mode of knowledge and how phenomenology could help humanity reclaim reason.1