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- Title
INTELLECTUALS AND THE STATE: THE FINNISH UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENTSIA AND THE GERMAN IDEALIST TRADITION.
- Authors
KORTTI, JUKKA
- Abstract
This essay examines the making of the Finnish intelligentsia and its relation to the state and the nation. The problem is analysed primarily from the perspective of student activism in the twentieth century. The formation of the intelligentsia is viewed in the context of nationalism, (cultural) modernism and radicalism in the development of the public sphere. The main source for the article's findings is the student magazine Ylioppilaslehti (Student Magazine), which is not just “any student paper” but a Finnish institution that saw most of Finland's cultural and political elite pass through its editorial staff in the twentieth century. The essay demonstrates the importance of German idealism, as theorized by the Finnish statesman and philosopher J. W. Snellman, in the activities of the Finnish university intelligentsia well into the twenty-first century, and particularly in linking these activities to nation building.
- Subjects
FINLAND; INTELLECTUAL life; STUDENT activism -- History; INTELLECTUALS; CULTURAL nationalism; STUDENT newspapers &; periodicals; FINNISH politics &; government; GERMAN idealism; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Modern Intellectual History, 2014, Vol 11, Issue 2, p359
- ISSN
1479-2443
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1017/S1479244314000055