The economists of the troika are not imposing violent austerity measures simply to politically dominate the European nations but rather to exclude any competing existential project, that is, any alteration to the troika's vision of "the market".
It is tempting to see the aesthete as a cultured hedonist a fairly obvious offshoot of the Romantic movement who accepts the distinction made by Immanuel Kant (1724 1804) between artistic and sensuous pleasure while combining them in a single existential project.
Then you realise that Litzenburger is playing herself, that she's the mother of co-director Theis, and that Angélique's family members are also playing themselves – at which point the film takes on the colours of a daring and fascinating existential project, or therapeutic exercise.
"Must we Burn Sade?" identifies the Marquis's decision to write as an existential project, an authentic ethics and a politics of rebellion.
This implies that the consistency of the existential project, from which the world is revealed in a special way, also commands the consistency of the artwork.
If that is true, however, then every "revelation" of the world in the first, metaphysical sense also entails a revelation of the fundamental ethical (or, as the existentialists preferred, existential) project underpinning this perception.
The artwork is the most striking example of the power of human consciousness to turn towards the world in such a way that it takes in from it certain elements and blanks out others, in accordance to a fundamental existential project.
Moreover, talk of an "existential threat" projects Israel as weak, hurts its morale, and reduces its foreign policy options.
One could argue that the existential phenomenological project is primarily an ethical project; the existentialist is less interested in a neutral description of the world, and more interested in promoting justice and social progress.
This overcoming is an existential, practical project, a goal for the Zen practitioner, although it is paradoxically stated as "if you face it, it goes away".
Beauvoir's challenge to the philosophical tradition was part of the existential-phenomenological project.
