Husserl framed scholarly responsibility as answerability to oneself.

Evidence

In August 1934, he applied to go to Prague for the Eighth International Congress of Philosophy, dedicated to the theme ‘the mission of philosophy in our time’. He was denied a travel permit, so he sent a letter to be read out at the congress instead. It was a short but stirring document, in which Husserl warned that a crisis was threatening the European tradition of reason and philosophical inquiry. He called on scholars in every field to take up their responsibility — their ‘answerability to themselves’, or Selbstverantwortung — to counter this crisis, and especially to establish international networks that would bring thinkers together across borders. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 322

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Selbstverantwortung, a key Husserlian concept meaning answerability to oneself.
• XREF: Foreshadows the existentialist emphasis on individual responsibility that Sartre will develop; also connects to the Crisis work’s idea of European reason in danger. — connects to: A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility

Broader Connections

• A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility #expands (0.75)