>tfw want to get into American literature and philosophy but

>genre
3/8 I chuckled.

>>8683318
>implying American philosophy isn't just American political philosophy

Try again.

>>8683318
Read Hemingway and then Faulkner. Just to cement the fact that all American novels are the same.

>>8683318

American writers I like

Walt Whiman
Flannery o Connor
Poe
Hawthorne
Faulkner
Melville

Dont like Hemingway

Havent read Pynchon or the Infinite Jest guys due to fear of them being memes.

>>8683346
>no lovecraft
shit list.

>>8683347

pynchon may get memed around here but hes an amazing author. dfw is ok.

>>8683318
Nothing. If you're not already interested in analytic philosophy, which is the tradition worthwhile American philosophers exclusively find themselves within, then you're never going to enjoy it

>>8683378
>implying anyone but Quine has really found themselves in analytic philosophy
And Quine's work is shitty -- at best. It's caused more problems than solved, really.

>>8683346
desu senpai that list is awful

Why are Eurotrash memes so lame?

So no one in this thread has ever heard of Transcendentalism? Yikes

>>8683318
Read Nozick

>>8683318
Read some of Emerson's essays, particularly self-reliance.

>>8683447
Amen.

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>>8683447
this picture was take before fedoras existed

>>8683564
Not surprised that /lit/ can't appreciate Thoreau.

>>8683347
>no Emerson

Emerson is probably the most basic and fundamental thinker in the American humanities outside of the revolutionaries.

>>8683564
Not before neckbeards though. Notice how cleanly his jaw is separated from his beard.

That is literally a fucking beard growing from his neck.

>>8683387
Lewis, Mellor, Kripke, Sider, Parfit, Gettier, Putnam, etc etc. What's shitty about Quine?

>>8683346
Not even the best Gertrude Stein
>The Grapes of Wrath
>good
>implying
What's with all the black authors, and no James Baldwin?
>Nabokov
Kerouac a shit
That's not Burroughs' best
lel fuck Harper Lee
>Plath >Plath >Plath
Wasn't Saul Bellow Canadian?
>Vonnegut >Vonnegut >Vonnegut
What's with all this entry-level lit?
>American Pastoral
>Not trash
Where's Mason & Dixon? Where's V.?
>No Suttree
If you're gonna include White Noise might as well put in Ratner's Star too
>No Pale King

2/10

Where is Wallace Stevens? Ezra Pound, Baldwin, Pynchon, Burroughs, Ralph Ellison, Roth etc.

lots of good shit

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>when someone says there's no good American philosophy

>>8684527
>mentioning Baldwin and Ellison in the same breath as Pound and Stevens

>>8684565
Pound is overrated

>>8684657
He's underrated if anything

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>>8684660
*Overweighted

>>8684545
This is true. Pragmatism got its start in the US, and between Peirce, William James, Dewey, and Rorty, it has certainly been influential.

Start with the Founding Fathers

I wasn't aware American literature was boring...

>>8683471
I second that

>>8686787
This guy gets it. The Federalist Papers and Common Sense are the shit.

t. europoor wishing he was american