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Pee-wee Herman: The Existentialist at Play
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Pee-wee Herman: The Existentialist at Play

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 / 7 August 2023

Pee-wee Herman forever lives in a cosmos without a supernatural giver of laws. In such an existentialist world, Nietzsche says, we must be like children and invent a world of meaning, lest we be consumed by the great void.

The Word of the Day Is Legacy, As in Pee-wee Herman’s Legacy
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The Word of the Day Is Legacy, As in Pee-wee Herman’s Legacy

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 / 20 October 2015
In an era of TV antiheroes, of irony, grittiness, postmodern sensibilities galore, a character like Pee-wee Herman, emphasized in Pee-wee’s Playhouse: Christmas Special, is cutting edge.
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The Wow Climax by Henry Jenkins

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