Song 556: Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's entertaining dive The Phenomenology Sing-Along comes from another of my Fast Folk colleagues, Hugh Blumenfeld, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. He performed this chuckler during my era with the group, and I definitely would have found it quite amusing at the time, but I actually only came across it recently. That said, it quickly made me smile, as it obviously did for most, if not all, of the audience who got to participate in the live recording, which now commemorates a comical moment at the Postcrypt Coffeehouse in Colombia University on an evening in the early 1990s. I will confess that if Jean Paul Sartre did describe phenomenology and existentialism as nearly-parasitic ideologies of Marxism in his critique of dialectical reason, I don't know if he was serious or just teasing, but I can certainly agree with Hugh that it sounds like right on phenomenology.
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