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.