Ethics of the cut

(English). This programmatic note dates the complete map of a philosophical research program built on three concepts: the cut (every determination is a cut), the remainder (what no determination can carry), and liability (whoever cuts is liable for the remainder – a generalization of no-fault liability). Its basic normative concept is returnability: not whether a cut was intended or fairly distributed, but whether those it affects can return – whether a return site is kept open and the declared remainder is part of the architecture of the form. The program comprises seventeen volumes in four groups and a closing entry that is not a book: an experiential foundation and a systematic main work (already published or in press); a groundwork of conceptual history, an introduction, and a liability document (the commentary as creditor's register); a systematic portal on the art of healing and six field volumes in a genre of their own, the opening script (Öffnungsschrift) – one cut, walks with three exits (finding, fork, door), a registry of doors, interleaved remainder sheets, closing questions without return address; and three border walks: a theory of forms, an ethics of the remainder, and an explicitly marked theological border walk. The series does not end with a last word but with a change of register: a real door in a real institution – a built return site, a brass plaque with no inscription – testable as no sentence is. Each volume is dated here with one programmatic thesis; loss conditions are stated for the program as a whole.