Tfw want to get into American literature and philosophy but it all seems so boring to me

>tfw want to get into American literature and philosophy but it all seems so boring to me

What can I read to get into the genre?

>genre
3/8 I chuckled.

>implying American philosophy isn't just American political philosophy

Try again.

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

As for philosophy

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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.

>no lovecraft
shit list.

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

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

>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.

desu senpai that list is awful

Why are Eurotrash memes so lame?

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

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Read Nozick

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

Amen.

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this picture was take before fedoras existed

Not surprised that Veeky Forums can't appreciate Thoreau.

>no Emerson

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

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

That is literally a fucking beard growing from his neck.

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

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

>when someone says there's no good American philosophy

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

Pound is overrated

He's underrated if anything

*Overweighted

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...

I second that

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

t. europoor wishing he was american