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Eino Kaila's Political Views: A Comment on Sven Ove Hansson's “A History of Theoria ”
Author(s) -
MANNINEN JUHA,
STRANG JOHAN
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1755-2567
pISSN - 0040-5825
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-2567.2010.01061.x
Subject(s) - politics , german , philosophy , humanities , sociology , political science , law , linguistics
Abstract This comment on Sven Ove Hansson's article on the history of the journal Theoria elaborates and corrects Hansson's characterisation of the political standpoint of the Finnish philosopher Eino Kaila as “sympathetic towards the German regime”. Although not an easy question, particularly considering Kaila's unfortunate publications during the Second World War, it is argued that the characterisation is plainly wrong if it refers to the mid‐1930s.