Oisin Keohane

Cosmo-nationalism (eBook, ePUB)

American, French and German Philosophy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 - ultimately 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 Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474431187
• Artikelnr.: 72413312

Autorenporträt

Oisín Keohane is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Previously, he was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and NRF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography
Index