A Comparative Study of the concept of "world life" in Some Iranian Stories from Modern to Postmodern Era

The concept of “world life” is one of the fundamental concepts in the contemporary philosophy, especially in Husserl’s phenomenology. The modern philosophical topics are also shaped in this type of conceptualization. The subjects such as "intersubjectivity space, the other, awareness" are distinctive features of the modern and postmodern literature. Therefore, considering the "world life" and the differences of the subjects living in the "world life" would be a suitable topic for the analysis the evolutionary process of Persian modern stories to postmodern ones. In this regard, three modern and three postmodern short stories are selected and reviewed in the present study. Regarding the issue, it seems that the constructive components of modern view of "world life" of a subject, such as "the other, identity coherence, and intersubjectivity", have been destroyed or drastically changed in the stream of postmodern literature. As a result, it can be assumed that the concept of "world life" has lost its existentialistic philosophy in post modernism. Thus, the subject, in the postmodern literature, is located in an unlimited space, facing no focus or center. The existence of such a subject would be suspected as well.