Cosmo-nationalism : American, French and German philosophy /

Why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, OisóÂƯn Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in c...

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Main Author: Keohane, Oisín (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Making of Brothers: Kant the Nationalist, the Internationalist and the Cosmopolitan
  • 3. The Presentation of National Philosophies: Kant on the French and German National Character
  • 4. The Metaphysics of Nationalism: Fichte and the German Language as a National Philosophical Idiom
  • 5. Philosophical Rights-of-Way: Tocqueville and the American Philosophical Method
  • 6. The Transcendental Declaration of Independence: Emerson and American Philosophy.