A Look at Intercultural Communication as the Interaction of Lifeworlds and Overcoming the Crisis of Trust

Abstract

The article is devoted to the scientific heritage of Andrei Yakovlevich Bolshunov, a thinker, scientist, and mentor who made an outstanding contribution to science and didactics. The article examines the role of intercultural communication in the sociocultural sphere as a basic one for other spheres of society’s life, including politics, education, science, and economics. In this paper, we presented the authors’ model of intercultural communication in the sociocultural sphere in the form of a map of the lifeworlds. Under the term ‘lifeworld’, we understood by the authors as an intersubjective shared everyday world of the individual. Analysis of the relationship between sociocultural lifeworlds in dynamics makes it possible to ascertain the presence of transformations, decentrations, reassembly of social, global tensions. Overcoming the crisis of confidence, reducing international tension, according to the authors, is possible through the creation of a common global lifeworld. Finally, we propose a specific practices that contribute to creating a space of intersubjectively shared meanings, deliberative activities based on the model of absolute hospitality and the circulation of gifts.