The Continuity of the Transcendental Being and the Death of The Other
Notes for a Phenomenology of Death (Edmund Husserl and Emmanuel Lévinas)
Keywords:
Lévinas, Husserl, phenomenologyAbstract
In his late writings about the consciousness of time Husserl states, on the basis of the nonterminating living present, the immortality of the transcendental being. However the phenomenon of other’s decease awakes the concern about an upcoming death and shatters the certainty of an endless continuity of transcendental life. Deeping in the emotional character of the relationship with other’s dead, Emmanuel Lévinas reveals the ethical sense of an experience of interrupted expectation of survival beyond the community with the others.