Rune Slagstad

Rune Slagstad
Full name Rune Slagstad
Born February 22, 1945 (1945-02-22) (age 67)
Bergen, Norway
Era 20th century
Region Western Philosophy

Rune Slagstad (born 1945) is a Norwegian historian, philosopher and legal theorist. In addition to professional work, he has since the late sixties contributed actively to public debate on a variety of issues.

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Biography

Slagstad was editor of Pax Publishing (1971–1978) and the Norwegian University Press (1986–1989). He has held tenured professorships both at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Institute for Social Research and Oslo University College and headed The Research Council of Norway Program on Governance and Democracy ("LOS") (1990–1998).

He initiated and co-edited the encyclopedia PaxLeksikon (with i.a. Hans Fredrik Dahl and Jon Elster),[1] co-edited the leftist journal Kontrast, and was editor-in-chief of the intellectual journal Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift[2] from 1984 through 2009. Among his significant publications are “Constitutionalism and democracy” (co-edited with Jon Elster), ”De nasjonale strateger” (”National strategists”),[3] Rettens ironi (”The Irony of Law”)[4] and (Sporten) (”Sports”);[5] a study of sports from a cultural historical point of view.

Slagstad is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature(1996-), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2002-), and on the board of Morgenbladet (2003–2009) and The Danish-Norwegian Foundation (1998-). He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (est. 1975), in which he through the seventies also held several leading positions.[6]

Presently Slagstad holds a professorship at the Centre for the Study of Professions at Oslo University College. He is the editor of the Festschrift to Jon Elster (published at Pax in 2010), and is currently working on a study of shifting knowledge regimes following what Jürgen Habermas calls the post-national constellation.

Slagstad was born and raised in Bergen, but now lives in Oslo with his wife Anine Kierulf. He has three children.

He was in 2005 announced Norway’s leading intellectual by the daily newspaper Dagbladet.[7] In 1996 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.[8]

References

  1. ^ http://mediabase1.uib.no/paxlex/paxleksikon.html
  2. ^ http://www.universitetsforlaget.no/?marketplaceId=200&languageId=1&siteNodeId=705238
  3. ^ De nasjonale strateger (1998) ISBN 82-530-2024-4 (2. ed. 2001 ISBN 82-530-2336-7)
  4. ^ Rettens ironi (2001), ISBN 82-530-2337-5
  5. ^ (Sporten): en idéhistorisk studie (2008), ISBN 978-82-530-3095-1
  6. ^ http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Rune_Slagstad/utdypning
  7. ^ http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2005/01/11/419957.html
  8. ^ "Priser – Fritt Ords Honnør" (in Norwegian). Fritt Ord. http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/priser/category/fritt_ords_honnor/. Retrieved 22 May 2010. 

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