Ok all you Americans, why are there no good American philosophers who in the same league as all those German/French philosophers?

Ok so they might have had a few hundred years start in terms of culture/sophistication/being civilised and sure, you've still some way to go in that regard but you should have least produced one by now..
Post a pic of a famous (not modern though, I should have mentioned not modern) and you will get

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and if you tell me his name too (because it's probably going to be a guy) you will get a upvote/generally positive seeming emoticon thingy).

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LeeInTheNorthWoods · 70-79, F

Please no one threaten me or call me stupid. (Not that there are people who do such things on SW.) I'm a loyal American stating my opinion. Okay?

I'm an admirer of Dewey, Henry James, Thoreau, A.N. Whitehead, Emerson, Santayana. There are lots of smart Americans.

But, none of them seems to have the influence of the French existentialists.

Also, there are so many Germans thinkers in the last 100 years who've had worldwide impact. Can I recommend German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Weber to Heidegger by Julian Young. It's an excellent discussion of stuff like critical theory, phenomenology, etc.

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