All of these come with the caveat of “to the degree I can claim to understand them” but: 1st love was existentialism & Heidegger was really influential to me (yes, I know how horrible he was), got really into Foucault for a bit & later Wittgenstein blew my mind, that, plus 1/2

Habermas’ Philosophical Discourse of Modernity & Richard Rorty helped to break the hold of pessimistic continental philosophers and let me come to accept I’m a mostly normie (American) liberal & pragmatism is what most closely aligns with my authentic self