Jay wrote:
Uzique wrote:
i had to dig very deep
and when in doubt... throw in a tocqueville quote
american lit #101
Hemingway, fitzgerald, heller, vonnegut, irving washington, twain... not that awful. Better than reading Austen or Dickens imo
Philosophy is rather barren however.
wow i don't know where to start but i won't be too harsh
you missed out a lot of amazing authors but shit like david foster wallace and walt whitman are unacceptable omissions
also your philosophy is pretty fucking good. stanley cavell is an absolute giant nowadays.
and you have shit from emerson to thoreau to james and dewey that sets up a pretty respectable tradition, standing alone from continental thought
my essay was mainly about progressivism, pragmatism, individualism and exceptionalism... all in one big lump of awesome