In his or her undertaking, the ethnographer's empathy and creative imagination are of fundamental importance, indeed on a par to his or her critical intellection and anthropological acumen, which grows and matures through the appropriation and affirmation of the reality of a given cultural
life-world that he or she endeavours to comprehend in its own terms.
The latter requires involving all those concerned in developing the research question; including participants from the research world and the "
life-world", the latter encompassing public agencies, the private sector and civil society.
He describes the concept and its development since the he introduced it in Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education; students' perspectives on math, teaching, and their lives in Brazil; and the concepts of intentionality and
life-world from Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl and reinterpretations of them in terms of real-life experiences that are socially structured and restructured through economic, political, cultural, and discursive factors.
These
life-world perspectives are intertwined in life and cannot be separated, but they can be differentiated in order to better understand the experience (Pettersson et al-, 2005).
The Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel Literature winners, praised Mr Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the
life-world of the occupation".
The Nobel Academy awarded 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".
It said Modiano was given the prize "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the
life-world of the occupation." The award is worth eight million Swedish kronor (USD 1.1 million).
The academy said the award of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) was "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the
life-world of the occupation".
Reflecting upon these issues produces more questions: Is this behaviour embedded in a
life-world like our own?