Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Interrogates the rise of national philosophies and their impact on cosmopolitanism and nationalism. The idea of national philosophy carries in it a strange contradiction. We talk about 'German philosophy' or 'American philosophy'. But philosophy has always pictured itself to be the project of universality. It presents itself as something that takes place outside or beyond the national detachable from language, culture and history.So why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism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 cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation. Opens up new exciting areas of exploration between nationalism and cosmopolitanism through the concept of the cosmo-national. Examines Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, showing him to be much more interested in the intersection of philosophy and the social sciences than previously thought. Explores three cases: German Philosophy through Kant and Fichte, French Philosophy through Tocqueville and American Philosophy through Emerson.