The term ‘project’ links freedom and contingency in historical determination.

Evidence

2. The term “project” emphasizes the element of freedom and responsibility in historical determination: it links autonomy and contingency. In this sense, the term is used in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 104

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Marcuse’s Sartrean use of ‘project’ — history as chosen, hence accountable, not fate.
• XREF: Sartrean ‘project’ as the normative counterweight to the determinist flattening elsewhere — a thread for the conversation about agency vs. administered society. — connects to: Freedom unifies past, present, and future into a single project.; The past is a free choice made from the present project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1192; The situation fuses freedom’s projects with brute contingency indistinguishably — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1162 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• One’s fundamental project determines the meaning of one’s past #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1184
• The facticity of place only becomes an obstacle through freedom’s original project #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1175
• The past’s force and meaning depend entirely on present projects #expands (0.80)
• Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility #expands (0.80)
• Bad faith lets spontaneous projects remain unfounded flights from freedom #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 23