THE ULTIMATE ETHICS OF HUSSERL. FROM SELF-MEDITATION TO SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Husserl's final writings develop a theory of the life-world that is made explicit in the Crisis (1936) and in the many unpublished texts that surround it. Even if this theory of the life-world does not, at first glance, come across as an ethics or as a theory of ethics (unlike the courses that Husserl gave on ethics and the theory of values), it nevertheless remains marked by an ethical preoccupation that ensures the unity of Husserl's analyses. By returning in particular to the motif of auto-meditation (Selbstbesinnung), which Husserl establishes as the principle of individual and social responsibility, I aim in this paper to make clear the contours and the significance of Husserl's late ethics.