Despair intends the future as totally as hope does

Evidence

For despair, whether personal or historical, remains an emotion oriented to the future, one which “intends” the future in as total a fashion as hope: only it projects nothingness as its ultimate, rather than the all, the in-vain rather than the supreme. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses Lukács’s ethical dismissal of nihilism; the reader is tracing exactly this Jameson-vs-Lukács dialectical payoff. — connects to: Suicide cannot escape absurdity because it too awaits a future meaning it denies itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1257; People can simultaneously dread and desire the catastrophic events they anticipate — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 509; Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Suicide cannot escape absurdity because it too awaits a future meaning it denies itself #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1257
• People can simultaneously dread and desire the catastrophic events they anticipate #corroborates (0.78) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 509
• A freely-made promise transforms uncertainty into fact by willing a future into being #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1035
• Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being #complicates (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239