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This article aims to examine the « ethical experience », identified as the core of the doctrine of Levinas, in the light of the transcendental philosophy in its Fichtean version. Beyond some convergences (such as the primacy of the practical realm, the key role of the primordial relation of the Other, which is specially sustainded by the body, primarily by the face, and takes the form of an ethical command), this strictly systematic confrontation demonstrates a major divergence concerning the status of the limit. The thesis is that Levinas in his attempt to eliminate the limit is confronted with a number of severe difficulties.