Michael Haneke and the Consequences of Radical Freedom

Many of the feature films and television productions of screenwriter-director Michael Haneke explore the individual’s unsuccessful attempts in coming to terms with his or her innate autonomy. Many existentialist thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre in his lectureExistentialism Is a Humanism, suggest...

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1. Verfasser:	Kevin L. Stoehr
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ambivalence Anthropology Applied anthropology Behavioral sciences Cognitive processes Cognitive psychology Concept of being Continental philosophy Cultural anthropology Cultural studies Emotion Emotional defense mechanisms Emotional states Existentialism Film studies Film theory & criticism Human behavior Irrationalism Metaphilosophy Metaphysics Movies Nihilism Ontological properties Ontology Personality Personality processes Personality psychology Phenomenology & Existentialism Philosophy Psychology Radical freedom Rationality Reality Reasoning Repression Thought processes Violence Western philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:	Many of the feature films and television productions of screenwriter-director Michael Haneke explore the individual’s unsuccessful attempts in coming to terms with his or her innate autonomy. Many existentialist thinkers, including Jean-Paul Sartre in his lectureExistentialism Is a Humanism, suggest a kind of radical freedom that is implied by human subjectivity and that provides opportunities for creative individuality. Yet such freedom also poses serious challenges that may lead a person away from the path to genuine self-realisation and instead to a life of untruthfulness or inauthenticity, to a slavish type of conformism, or to a pathological form of life-negation.