Past in suspense, present expecting, and future free project are one reality.

Evidence

Modern history clearly links time past to time present, and orients its narratives to the future. But present experience is also, as Koselleck points out, a reencounter with what was once imagined as the future. The disappointment or delight this may occasion therefore prompts a reorientation to the past that is more complex than the notion of “invented tradition” allows. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

We have seen, indeed, that a Past which was only Past would collapse in an honorary existence in which it would have lost all connection with the present. In order for us to “have” a past, it is necessary that we maintain it in existence by our very project towards the future; we do not receive our past, but the necessity of our contingency implies that we are not able not to choose it. This is what it means “to have to be one’s own past.” We see that this necessity, considered here from a purely temporal point of view, is not basically distinct from the primary structure of freedom, which must be the nihilation of the being which it is and which, by this very nihilation, brings it about that there is a being which it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1182 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freedom unifies past, present, and future into a single project.; Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1068; The past is a free choice made from the present project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1192 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. #corroborates (0.90) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068
• The past is kept in suspense by the perpetual expectation that freedom generates. #expands (0.90)
• The past is a free choice made from the present project #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1192
• The future project, not chronology, organizes the layers of one’s past. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1187
• Having a past requires actively choosing it through the future-project. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1182
• The present is overdetermined yet fundamentally open to contingency #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1196