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Heidegger and Hegel

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Is There a Connection Between Heidegger and the Stand-Up Comic?

I think that there's something about the standup comedian and the philosopher or the standup philosopher as Mel Brooks put it in history of the world part one. I don't know what it is exactly well it's especially for someone like Heidegger whose philosophy is so tied to like to existence and how they're yeah how they're living right. It seems to me like with Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell I care less about how they what they did you know like it just it just like that kind of philosophy seems to be more like a work of art whereas with Heidegger it seems much but I think you're right like Louis C.K. and the stand-up comic

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