Abstract
Woolf often criticizes the concept of dominant, separate and static self in her works and undermines individualism which is often associated with modernism. In A Room of One's Own she objects to the "dominance" and "aridity" of the "I", a subject that imposes itself on its environment and pushes other subjects to the background.
Instead, she asks for the natural fusion of minds and cooperation between different beings. In The Waves she explores intersubjectivity, which results in the overcoming of individual identity.
In relation to the outline of Between the Acts, Woolf writes in her diary that she aims to reject the "I" and substitute it with "we composed of many things". In "A Sketch of the Past" she introduces her personal philosophy based on the idea that all human beings are equal part of the work of art called reality.
Consequently, it may be suggested that Woolf, especially in her late works, develops an "ontoethics" grounded on ontological relations between subjects who "are members of one another" (Between the Acts), whose identities are "in part made of the stimulus which other people provide" (The Waves) and create "unity out of multiplicity" (Three Guineas). These ontological interhuman relations and a certain degree of impersonality enables Woolf to envisage a mode of thought and life, an ethics, that promotes general solidarity between people and value of every human being.
This humanist project is sketched mainly in Between the Acts and Three Guineas where Woolf presents foundation stones on which "the wall of civilisation" must be rebuilt.